Congress
How many members of the House of Representatives are there?
435
How many members of the Supreme Court are there?
9
What case guarantees a lawyer for the defendant?
Gideon v. Wainwright
What are the five liberties of the 1st Amendment?
Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition
What Law made all public spaces accessible to all individuals?
Civil Rights Act (1965)
What is the selection of committee chair usually based upon?
Seniority + majority party membership
How many justices does it take to bring a case to the Supreme Court?
4
What precedent and what case did Brown versus Board overturn?
Separate but equal from Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
What does the Establishment Clause do?
Says government may not establish religion (wall between church and state)
What 1896 court case led to the legality of separate but equal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What group reconciles bills from the House and the Senate?
Conference Committee
Who does the Constitution give the power to set up the US federal Courts?
Congress
What doctrine was established in Schenck v. U.S.?
Clear and present danger
What is the national religion of the U.S.?
Trick question - there is no official national religion.
What do we call the rule outlawing the use of illegally obtained evidence in trial?
Exclusionary Rule
List three ways a bill can die in congress?
Committee, subcommittee, house vote, senate vote, filibuster, conference committee, House rules committee, Speaker kills it
What is an amicus curiae brief?
Friend of the court brief, and written argument made in supreme court case on behalf of one of the parties in the case
What did the Court outlaw in NY Times v. U.S.
Prior Restraint
What are two kinds non-protected speech?
Libel, prior restraint by government, fighting words.
Freedom of speech does not include the right:
To incite imminent lawless action.
To make or distribute obscene materials.
To burn draft cards
To permit students to print articles in a school newspaper over the objections of the school admin.
Of students to make obscene speech at school-sponsored event
Of students to advocate illegal drug use at a school-sponsored event.
What are two areas of life the Civil Rights Act protected from discrimination?
Housing, employment, public accommodations
What majority is needed to vote to override a presidential veto?
⅔ of both house and senate
What are three core beliefs of judicial conservatives?
The Constitution is supreme. The Constitution tells us how to rule. Practice judicial restraint. Maintaining the present state of affairs and honoring past practices and traditions. Stick to legal authorities like the constitutional text and its authors' intentions, and to practice the gradualism and concreteness of the ancient common law. Disapprove generally of government power, of interference with markets, and of centralized control.
What clause of the 1st Amendment was the basis for the Engel v Vitale ruling?
Establishment Clause
What is the meaning of selective incorporation?
Over time the Court has used the 14th amendment to guarantee that all the rights that cannot be abridged by the national government may not be abridged by the state governments either.
What federal agency fights discrimination in the workplace?
E.E.O.C. (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)