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1. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Administrative Rule Making
Power of the Federal Reserve
Marbury v. Madison
Gideon v. Wainwright
2. 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.
8th Amendment
Logrolling
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Power of the Federal Reserve
3. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Last time Congress declared war
Pork Barrel Legislation
Prior Restraint
Articles of Confederation
4. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Government Corporation
State of the Union Address
Presidential Mandate
5. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
President's Inherent Powers
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Standing
Presidential Mandate
6. An inability to regulate interstate and foreign trade - lack of a chief executive and a national court system - and its rule that amendments must be approved by unanimous consent.
Native American Smoking
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Logrolling
7. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Government Corporation
Filibuster
Miranda v. Arizona
Constitutional Convention
8. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Marbury v. Madison
Power of the Federal Reserve
Redlining
Power to Declare War
9. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Lawrence v. Texas
The Declaration of Independence.
Jim Crow Laws
10. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Devolution
The Declaration of Independence.
Clear and Present Danger Test
11. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Regulatory Agency
Delegated Powers
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Plessy v. Fergueson
12. Court found detainess held both at US and Guantanamo bay had the right to challenge their detention before a judge or other neutral decision maker.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Amicus Curiae
Buckley v. Valeo
The Right of Due Process
13. 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.
Executive Order
Habeas Corpus
Civil Service Act of 1883
Speaker of the House
14. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Alexander Hamilton
4th Amendment protections
Administrative Rule Making
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
15. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Executive Order
The Declaration of Independence.
The Right of Due Process
Alexander Hamilton
16. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Constitutional Convention
Government Corporation
Gideon v. Wainwright
Redlining
17. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Habeas Corpus
Bill of Rights
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Lawyers
18. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
Critical Period
War Powers Resolution
The Right of Due Process
Speaker of the House
19. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
The Right of Due Process
Habeas Corpus
Prior Restraint
Executive office of the President
20. 30 minutes.
Speaker of the House
American Government and Politics
4th Amendment protections
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
21. The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress
Critical Period
Marbury v. Madison
Dred Scot v. Standford
Buckley v. Valeo
22. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Brown v. Board of Education
Marbury v. Madison
George Washington
Pork Barrel Legislation
23. 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
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Gouverneur Morris
Delegated Powers
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
24. 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
American Government and Politics
90% or higher
8th Amendment
Activist Judges
25. A rule that gov't action toward religion is permissible if it is secular in purpose. Separation of law and religion.
26. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Around 100
Congressional Oversight
Administrative Rule Making
Devolution
27. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
Gouverneur Morris
Lawyers
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Executive Agreements
28. 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.
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Prior Restraint
De facto and de jure segregation
President's Appointment Power
29. High-ranking military officers who represent the Navy - Army - Air Force and Marines. They assist the civilian leaders of the Department of Defense-advise the president on security matters.
Class Action Suit
Power to Declare War
Joint Chiefs of Staff
CA Prop 187
30. An effort by a gov't agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship.
Power to Declare War
Congressional Oversight
Government Corporation
Prior Restraint
31. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
32. 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.
Miranda v. Arizona
Amicus Curiae
Critical Period
Senatorial Courtesy
33. A collection of essays expressing the political philosophy of the Founders and that were instrumental in bringing about the ratification of the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Gideon v. Wainwright
Articles of Confederation
The Federalist Papers
34. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
4th Amendment protections
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Daniel Shays
Standing
35. Most common job of Senators
Lawyers
Gideon v. Wainwright
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senatorial Courtesy
36. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
Presidential Mandate
Thomas Jefferson
The Right of Due Process
The Exclusionary Rule
37. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Senatorial Courtesy
Buckley v. Valeo
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Speaker of the House
38. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Administrative Rule Making
State of the Union Address
Senatorial Courtesy
6 years/2 years
39. % of votes to override a presidential veto
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Dred Scot v. Standford
2/3 from Congress
The Federalist Papers
40. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
6 years/2 years
Presidential Mandate
Around 100
Bill of Rights
41. 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
Presidential Mandate
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Activist Judges
42. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Critical Period
War Powers Resolution
Griswald v. Connecticut
Dred Scot v. Standford
43. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Presidential Mandate
Government Corporation
Plessy v. Fergueson
44. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
American Government and Politics
Power to Declare War
Clear and Present Danger Test
Prior Restraint
45. Term of Senate/House
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
6 years/2 years
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Power to Declare War
46. 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
Around 100
Jim Crow Laws
2/3 from Congress
Critical Period
47. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Power of the Federal Reserve
President's Appointment Power
Executive office of the President
Activist Judges
48. % of House that get reelected
4th Amendment protections
2/3 from Congress
90% or higher
Conference Committee
49. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Logrolling
Brown v. Board of Education
Power to Declare War
Speaker of the House
50. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Pork Barrel Legislation
9
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Delegated Powers