The purpose of the first ten amendments was to __________.
What is provide clear limitations on the power of the national government
100
Governments were first created to __________.
What is maintain order by protecting members of society from violence and criminal activity
100
Which of these countries is the best example of a totalitarian regime?
What is North Korea
100
The right to privacy is __________.
What is not explicitly referenced in the Constitution
100
The full faith and credit clause __________.
What is protects the rights of citizens as they move from state to state
200
The Three-Fifths Compromise, which was crafted to address the impasse on slavery, __________.
What is avoided the use of the word “slave,” instead referring to “all other persons”
200
Authority is divided, usually by a written constitution, between a central government and constituent (state) governments in a(n) __________.
What is federal system
200
The system consisting of a league of independent states, each having essentially sovereign powers, and a central government with limited powers is known as a(n) __________ system
What is confederal
200
The requirement that persons under arrest be informed of their legal rights, including right to counsel, is known as the __________.
What is Miranda rule
200
. During the Constitutional deliberations, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote 85 essays, known as the __________, to sway public opinion.
What is Federalist Papers
300
Powers held jointly by the national government and by state governments are known as __________ powers.
What is concurrent
300
. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (now known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) was an example of __________ federalism
What is cooperative
300
The policy in admissions or hiring that gives special consideration to traditionally disadvantaged groups to overcome the present effects of past discrimination is known as __________.
What is affirmative action
300
Much of the terminology used in the United States today to describe the distribution of political power is derived from the __________.
What is ancient Greeks
300
The view that most of the liberties and rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are protected from state government actions through the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause is known as the __________.
What is incorporation theory
400
Nonviolent civil disobedience generated public sympathy when __________.
What is television and newspaper coverage showed integrationists being violently attacked by white segregationists and government officials
400
__________ give law enforcement officials opportunities to track offenders and, consequently, constitute potential threats to the right to privacy.
What is Wireless technologies
400
. __________ expanded the protection against unreasonable searches and seizures to state court proceedings.
What is Mapp v. Ohio
400
The goal of the Seneca Falls Convention was to __________.
What is discuss issues for the expansion of women’s social, civil, and religious rights
400
In the 2003 decision of Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court __________.
What is declared laws against sodomy between consenting adults in private unconstitutional
500
Chief Justice __________ did much to increase the power of the national government and to reduce that of the states in the early part of the nineteenth century.
What is John Marshall
500
The Supreme Court decision in __________was the first since the New Deal that the Court ruled to limit congressional power by claiming Congress had exceeded its authority under the commerce clause.
What is United States v. Lopez
500
The Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled the Regents’ Prayer unconstitutional in part because __________.
What is religious persecutions are closely tied to governmental established religions
500
The New Jersey plan did little to change the Articles of Confederation with the exception of __________.
What is asserting national law over state law in the form of a supremacy doctrine
500
The Supreme Court ruling in the Bakke case states that __________.
What is race cannot be the sole factor in admissions decisions