Congress
# of members of House of Representatives
What is 435?
# of Supreme court justices
What is 9?
Guaranteed a lawyer for the defendent
What is Gideon v Wainwright?
5 liberties of the 1st amendment
Speech, religion, petition, assembly, press
Law that made all public spaces available to everyone
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Criteria for being selected committee chair
What is seniority and party leadership?
# of justices to bring a case to the Supreme Court
What is 4?
Case that Brown v Board of Ed overturn
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Clause that prohibits a government church
What is the establishment clause?
Plessy v Ferguson established
What is separate but equal?
Group that reconciles bills from House and the Senate
What is the Conference Committee?
constitution gave power to what branch to set up the federal court system
What is Congress?
Rule established in Mapp v Ohio?
What is the exclusionary rule?
National religion of the US
What is none?
Open up sports to high school female athletes
What is Title IX?
Three ways a bill can die in Congress
What is 1. killed by the leadership 2. in committee 3. the floor vote?
Documents sent to the courts to influence, educate justices on the case
What is amicus curiae?
Type of judge that would be more likely to expand privacy rights
What is a judicial activist?
2 kinds of non protected speech
What is libel, obscenity, slander, perjury, fighting words?
The amendment associated with the Civil Rights
What is the 14th amendment?
% needed to override a presidential veto
What is 2/3?
3 beliefs of judicial conservatives
What is 1. strict interpretation of the constitution 2. interpreting the law not making laws 3. following the original intent of the framers
Clause of the 1st amendment that was the basis of Engel v Vitale ruling
What is the establishment clause?
Bill of rights can apply to the states
What is selective incorporation?
Case that led to selective incorporation
What was Schenck v US?