Bill of Rights
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Civil Rights
Grab Bag
100

Right to bear arms

2nd

100

What court case found that limiting a corporation's donation of funds to independent broadcasts about elections violates their first amendment rights?

Citizens United v. FEC

100

What does it mean to say that there is a habeas corpus violation?

Unlawful imprisonment

100

Court case in 1954 that lead to desegregation of public schools

Brown v. Board of Ed

100

The Three sides of Iron Triangle

What is Bureaucracy, Congress/Commitess, and Special Interest Group/PACS

200

What amendment outlaws cruel and unusual punishment?

8th

200

What court case applied the 2nd amendment to state and local laws?

McDonald v. Chicago

200

What court case resulted in police having to read a person their rights as an accused person upon detainmnent?

Miranda v. Arizona

200

The Definition of Civil Rights

What is the protection of people against discrimination?

200

the Number of Electoral Votes

What is 538?

300

What amendment outlaws double jeopardy and self-incrimination?

5th

300

What court case found that a state's mandatory education was a violation of the free exercise clause?

Wisconsin v. Yoder

300

The NYT v US said the government could not use this to withhold information from being published.

What is Prior Restraint?

300

What did the 24th amendment do?

Ban poll taxes

300

A state that always votes one way in a Presidential Election

What is a safe state?

400

Outlaws search and seizures without warrants and due process

4th

400

What court case ruled that students demonstrating symbolically in school was allowed due to the first amendment, as long as they are not disrupting the business of school?

Tinker v. Des Moines

400

If I, as a voter, vote for all Republicans in an election, I am using this type of voting

What is party line voting? 

400

The Name of our Central Bank, that decides Monetary Policy

What is the Federal Reserve?

400

Lassiez Faire

What is the government does not get involved in the economy?

500

What rights are guaranteed by the 1st amendment? 6 rights

free exercise of religion, establishment clause, petition, assembly, speech, press

500

What was the Supreme Court's justification in limited Schenck's freedom of speech in Schenck v. US?

Guilty of insubordination of government via Espionage Act because the anti-draft leaflets hurt America's war effort and created a clear and present danger to the country

500

Exit Poll

What is when you are asked how you voted after you are leaving the polling place

500

The part of the economic policy that has to do with raising taxes, setting the budget, the part that Congress and the executive branch do

What is Fiscal Policy?

500

Monetary Policy 

Policies like interest rates which are set by a central bank.