This act originally passed just weeks after the September 11th attacks; it gives the federal government the power to monitor political or religious groups without any connection to a criminal investigation.
What is the Patriot Act?
100
This legal concept means that the Supreme Court has nationalized the Bill of Rights.
What is the incorporation doctrine?
100
This 1954 court case officially desegregated public schools in the United States.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
This political process occurs once a decade after every census.
What is re-apportionment?
100
An office holder who is seeking re-election.
What is an incumbent?
200
This amendment forbids self-incrimination.
What is the fifth amendment?
200
This clause reserves the right of American citizens to accept any religious belief and engage in religious rituals.
What is the free exercise clause?
200
This term refers to the type of laws specifically created to segregate black people and white people.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200
The ideological difference between men and women, especially on social issues.
What is the gender gap?
200
The dividing of states into election districts so as to give on political party a majority in many districts
What is gerrymandering?
300
This phrase describes the gradual process of incorporating individual Bill of Rights liberties to the states.
What is selective incorporation?
300
These grants are the main source of federal aid to the state and local governments, but can be used only for specific purposes.
What are categorical grants?
300
This term refers to the segregation of blacks based on the beliefs, traditions, and customs of society.
What is De Facto Segregation.
300
Favor free market solutions; are supportive of prayer in schools; more likely to support military intervention around the world.
What is conservative ideology?
300
Unwritten rule in both houses of Congress reserving committee chairs to members of the committee with the longest records of continuous service.
What is seniority?
400
When issued, this court order requires the government to present an arrested person before a judge.
What is a write of habeas corpus?
400
This amendment established the federal income tax.
What is the sixteenth amendment?
400
An action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education.
What is affirmative action.
400
This group tends to be more conservative regarding economic issues, but more liberal regarding social issues.
What are libertarians?
400
A way of delaying or preventing action on a bill by using unlimited debate time.
What is filibustering?
500
What are two clauses in the first amendment that deal with freedom of religion?
What are the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses?
500
Review by the Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.
What is judicial review?
500
This eliminated literacy tests as well as provided more opportunities for African-Americans to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
500
The set of beliefs, values, shared myths, and notions of a polity held by a group of people.
What is political culture?
500
The exchange of support or favors for mutual political gain by voting for each other's bills.