Important American
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The following document is where you can find the following quote:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights"
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This branch of government has the most articles within the Constitution
What is Congress?
This supreme court case's ruling granted the supreme court the power of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This amendment includes the right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This is the year Medgar Evers College Preparatory School was founded.
What is 1993?
The following document is where you can find the following quote:
“…I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice…”
What is A Letter from Birmingham Jail?
President Barack Obama's capture and assassination of Osama Bin Laden is an example of this power of the executive branch.
What is Commander and Chief?
The violation of the Espionage Act of 1917 led to this supreme court case
What is Schenck v. The United States?
This amendment describes the rights of the states vs. the rights of the federal government
What is the 10th Amendment?
This is the country where the current principal of Medgar Evers Preparatory School was born.
What is Jamaica?
The following document is where you can find the following quote:
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. . . . ”
What is Federalist No. 51?
This position in the Senate technically has more power and influence on a daily and regular basis.
Who is the President Pro Tempore?
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This amendment gave 18 year olds the right to vote
What is the 26th Amendment?
This is the armed conflict Medgar Evers fought in
What is WWII?
The following document is where you can find the following quote:
"...the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular to the State legislatures.”
What is Federalist No. 10
This is the current Speaker of the House of Representatives
Who is Mike Johnson
This Supreme Court Case was used as an example of selective incorporation in the the McDonald v. Chicago case
What is District of Columbia v. Heller?
This amendment gave Congress the power to collect income taxes
What is the 16th Amendment?
What is Ole Miss?
The following document is where you can find the following quote:
"Now, in a large extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity, to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldy, as to be subject in great measure to the inconveniency of a democratic government.”
What is Brutus No. 1?
This is the authority the Supreme Court has to hear a case for the first time
What is original jurisdiction?
This Constitutional Principle was being questioned in the Supreme Court Case Wilkerson v. Utah
What is cruel and unusual punishment?
This is the year the 21st amendment was enacted.
What is 1933?
It took this long for the murderer of Medgar Evers to be convicted for his crime.
What is 31 years?