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1. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
8th Amendment
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Filibuster
Dred Scot v. Standford
2. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Jurisdiction
Executive Order
Dred Scot v. Standford
Gouverneur Morris
3. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Logrolling
8th Amendment
90% or higher
Alexander Hamilton
4. Temp. committees whose members are appointed by SotH and officer of the Senate. They are charged with reaching compromise on legislation once it has been passed by the House. Determine what laws are passed.
Brown v. Board of Education
Congressional Oversight
Stare Decisis
Conference Committee
5. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
90% or higher
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
4th Amendment protections
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
6. Civil liberties are rights that individuals have against government. Among our civil liberties are the right to free expression - the right to worship (or not) as we choose - and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Only the
The Federalist Papers
The Right of Due Process
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Activist Judges
7. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
State of the Union Address
Speaker of the House
Delegated Powers
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
8. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
George Washington
Executive office of the President
The Federalist Papers
Jim Crow Laws
9. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
State of the Union Address
Administrative Rule Making
10. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
4th Amendment protections
Regulatory Agency
Lawyers
Power of the Federal Reserve
11. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
War Powers Resolution
Class Action Suit
Habeas Corpus
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
12. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
8th Amendment
Administrative Rule Making
Power of the Federal Reserve
Delegated Powers
13. WWll - 1941
State of the Union Address
George Washington
Last time Congress declared war
Jurisdiction
14. % of votes to override a presidential veto
2/3 from Congress
Habeas Corpus
Shays' Rebellion
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
15. Not allowed.
Native American Smoking
Executive office of the President
Bill of Rights
Gideon v. Wainwright
16. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
The Right of Due Process
Gouverneur Morris
Presidential Mandate
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
17. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Class Action Suit
Lawyers
The Exclusionary Rule
War Powers Resolution
18. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
State of the Union Address
Independent Agency
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
19. A system in which the president submits the name of a candidate for judicial appointment to the senators from the candidate's state before formally submitting it for full senate approval.
Redlining
The Exclusionary Rule
Senatorial Courtesy
Amicus Curiae
20. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Gideon v. Wainwright
Pork Barrel Legislation
Alexander Hamilton
21. Term of Senate/House
Logrolling
6 years/2 years
The Exclusionary Rule
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
22. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Class Action Suit
George Washington
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Miranda v. Arizona
23. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Congressional Oversight
Around 100
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
George Washington
24. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Stare Decisis
The Declaration of Independence.
Independent Agency
90% or higher
25. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Executive Agreements
Clear and Present Danger Test
Civil Service Act of 1883
Native American Smoking
26. de jure - 'by law'. Legally enforced practices - such as school segregation in the South before the 1960s. De facto - 'by fact'. Practices that occur even when there is no legal enforcement - such as school segregation in much of the US today.
De facto and de jure segregation
Congressional Oversight
Constitutional Convention
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
27. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Government Corporation
Standing
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
28. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Griswald v. Connecticut
State of the Union Address
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Government Corporation
29. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
The Federalist Papers
4th Amendment protections
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Bill of Rights
30. Delegate - member of Congress acts on the express preference of his constituents. Trustee - member is more loosely tied to constituents and makes the decisions she thinks best.
Devolution
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Habeas Corpus
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
31. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
Shays' Rebellion
Stare Decisis
The Exclusionary Rule
Standing
32. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Gideon v. Wainwright
Shays' Rebellion
9
Critical Period
33. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Gouverneur Morris
Independent Agency
14th Amendment
James Madison
34. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
Standing
CA Prop 187
Constitutional Convention
Executive office of the President
35. A survey of the origins and development of the political system in the United States from the colonial days to modern times with an emphasis on the Constitution - various political structures such as the legislative - executive - and judicial branche
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Gouverneur Morris
Class Action Suit
American Government and Politics
36. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
8th Amendment
Buckley v. Valeo
Power to Declare War
37. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Executive Agreements
Gideon v. Wainwright
Speaker of the House
The Declaration of Independence.
38. The 1780s in the United States - maked by internal conflict. The economy deteriorated as individual states printed their own currencies - taxed the products of their neighbors - and ignored foreign trade agreements. Inflation soared - small farmers l
Thomas Jefferson
Critical Period
Devolution
Buckley v. Valeo
39. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
Around 100
Speaker of the House
The Exclusionary Rule
Pork Barrel Legislation
40. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Pork Barrel Legislation
Gouverneur Morris
Griswald v. Connecticut
2/3 from Congress
41. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Buckley v. Valeo
Redlining
Administrative Rule Making
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
42. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Lawrence v. Texas
Plessy v. Fergueson
Shays' Rebellion
Gouverneur Morris
43. The chief presiding officer of the HoR. The speaker is the most important party and House leader - can influence lefislative agenda - fate of individual pieces of legislation - and members positions with the House.
American Government and Politics
Lawrence v. Texas
Clear and Present Danger Test
Speaker of the House
44. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Congressional Oversight
Speaker of the House
Brown v. Board of Education
Jim Crow Laws
45. A series of meetings to reform the Articles of Confederation convened in Philadelphia in 1787 in response to the economic and social disorder and the dangers of foreign intervention. The result was an entirely new plan of government - the Constitutio
Daniel Shays
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Thomas Jefferson
Constitutional Convention
46. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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47. Most common job of Senators
Senatorial Courtesy
Constitutional Convention
Delegated Powers
Lawyers
48. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
The Declaration of Independence.
Administrative Rule Making
8th Amendment
Regulatory Agency
49. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Devolution
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
De facto and de jure segregation
50. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Constitutional Convention
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Service Act of 1883
Critical Period