The Constitution
These first ten amendments to the Constitution protect basic freedoms and rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This chamber of Congress has 100 members, with 2 from each state.
What is the Senate?
This amendment protects your right to roast the government online without getting arrested (usually).
What is the First Amendment?
This process is used by parties to choose their candidates for office.
What are primaries?
Early U.S. federalism where national and state governments stayed in their own lanes is called this.
What is dual federalism?
The Constitution split power into three branches so no one goes full supervillain.
What is separation of powers?
This system allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the others.
What are checks and balances?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
These are powers specifically granted to the national government in the Constitution.
What are enumerated powers?
This clause in Article VI says that the Constitution and federal laws are the highest law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
When Congress sends a bill to the President and he says “nah,” that’s this power.
What is a veto?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This type of election system awards victory to the candidate with the most votes, even if they do not receive a majority.
What is plurality voting?
These powers are shared by both the federal government and the states, such as taxing and establishing courts.
What are concurrent powers?
This amendment guarantees that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This congressional power allows the Senate to reject presidential nominees for executive and judicial positions.
What is advice and consent?
This clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has been used to apply many Bill of Rights protections to the states.
What is the Due Process Clause?
Drawing districts so aggressively for partisan advantage that the map looks like abstract art is called this.
What is gerrymandering?
This type of federal aid gives states money for a broad purpose with few restrictions.
What is a block grant?
This clause requires that each state recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
If Congress REALLY wants a law despite the veto, they can use this “uno reverse card."
What is a veto override?
This doctrine allows the Supreme Court to apply most of the Bill of Rights to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is selective incorporation?
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
FINAL JEOPARDY: This principle predicts that single-member plurality systems tend to produce two dominant political parties.
What is Duverger’s Law?