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Purpose was to establish self-government with rules.
What is the Mayflower compact?
Group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is electoral college?
No cruel and unusual punishment amendment.
What is Amendment #8?
Law allowing a person to be punished for an action that was not against the law when it was committed.
What is an ex post facto law?
Supreme Court case that led to suspects being informed of their rights at time of arrest.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Written by Thomas Paine and encouraged the colonists to declare independence from England.
What is Common Sense?
25 years of age and 7-year U.S. citizen.....
What are requirements for the House of Representatives?
Original jurisdiction in most cases. Hears evidence and gives verdict.
What are district courts?
Federal laws prevail over state laws.
What is the supremacy clause?
Supreme Court case that extended due process rights to juveniles.
What is In re Gault?
Taxation without representation, no trial, quartering troops..............
What are grievances that led to and are listed in the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Allows Congress to stretch it's powers for what is needed.
What is the elastic clause?
Media organization that exposes illegal practices or waste.
What is a watchdog?
System of government in which power is divided between states and national government.
What is federalism?
Supreme Court case that led to provision of legal counsel if not able to afford one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
Required colonists to buy tea only from the British East India Company.
What is the Tea Act of 1773.
Approve treaties, approve presidential appointments, hold trials of impeached officials.
What is the Senate?
Powers directly given to the national government.
What are enumerated powers?
Form of government in which the leader is an all-powerful king.
What is an absolute monarchy?
Established judicial review for the Supreme Court.
What is Marbury v Madison?
A court order that requires police to bring a prisoner to court to explain why that person is being held.
What is writ of habeas corpus?
Reviews fairness of cases from lower courts.
What is an appellate court?
Government is run by a small group of elites.
What is an Oligarchy?
Series of statements describing a candidate's core beliefs and positions on various issues.
What is a platform?
Supreme Court case that upheld the right of students to wear black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War as freedom of speech.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?