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1. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
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Standing
Griswald v. Connecticut
Buckley v. Valeo
2. 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
Speaker of the House
Critical Period
14th Amendment
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
3. Gave equal right to black people covering voting - employment - public accommodation - and educations.
Pork Barrel Legislation
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Buckley v. Valeo
4. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Redlining
De facto and de jure segregation
Regulatory Agency
Administrative Rule Making
5. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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6. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Buckley v. Valeo
8th Amendment
Power to Declare War
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
7. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
Clear and Present Danger Test
Redlining
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Logrolling
8. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
Jurisdiction
Amicus Curiae
4th Amendment protections
14th Amendment
9. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Last time Congress declared war
Regulatory Agency
Thomas Jefferson
Power to Declare War
10. WWll - 1941
De facto and de jure segregation
14th Amendment
Last time Congress declared war
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11. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
Critical Period
The Exclusionary Rule
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
CA Prop 187
12. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Speaker of the House
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Amicus Curiae
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.
Presidential Mandate
Senatorial Courtesy
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Speaker of the House
14. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Activist Judges
Administrative Rule Making
Pork Barrel Legislation
Congressional Oversight
15. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Power to Declare War
Thomas Jefferson
Native American Smoking
Clear and Present Danger Test
16. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
De facto and de jure segregation
Gouverneur Morris
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
17. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Gouverneur Morris
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Executive Order
James Madison
18. 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
Plessy v. Fergueson
Prior Restraint
Devolution
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
19. 13th - abolished slavery. 14th - guaranteed equal protection and due process. 15th - guarenteed voting rights for African American men.
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Plessy v. Fergueson
20. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
14th Amendment
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Miranda v. Arizona
Delegated Powers
21. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Thomas Jefferson
Brown v. Board of Education
Senatorial Courtesy
De facto and de jure segregation
22. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
90% or higher
Thomas Jefferson
Gideon v. Wainwright
Plessy v. Fergueson
23. 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.
Regulatory Agency
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Executive office of the President
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24. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Constitutional Convention
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Congressional Oversight
Miranda v. Arizona
25. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
War Powers Resolution
Prior Restraint
Executive Agreements
President's Inherent Powers
26. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
8th Amendment
James Madison
Critical Period
Executive Agreements
27. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
6 years/2 years
8th Amendment
Administrative Rule Making
Regulatory Agency
28. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
Devolution
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Griswald v. Connecticut
Filibuster
29. 30 minutes.
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Speaker of the House
Presidential Mandate
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
30. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
CA Prop 187
Miranda v. Arizona
Power of the Federal Reserve
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
31. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
Bill of Rights
Power of the Federal Reserve
Activist Judges
Stare Decisis
32. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Brown v. Board of Education
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Filibuster
33. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Shays' Rebellion
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Delegated Powers
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
34. Most common job of Senators
Daniel Shays
President's Appointment Power
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Lawyers
35. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
Executive Agreements
2/3 from Congress
President's Appointment Power
Dred Scot v. Standford
36. Term of Senate/House
6 years/2 years
Power to Declare War
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
37. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Brown v. Board of Education
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Power of the Federal Reserve
Senatorial Courtesy
38. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.
Strict Scrutiny
Civil Service Act of 1883
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Habeas Corpus
39. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Dred Scot v. Standford
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
14th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
40. 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.
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Civil Service Act of 1883
41. An effort by a gov't agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship.
Prior Restraint
Constitutional Convention
Last time Congress declared war
Congressional Oversight
42. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Pork Barrel Legislation
Filibuster
Daniel Shays
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
43. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Habeas Corpus
Gouverneur Morris
Buckley v. Valeo
Bill of Rights
44. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Activist Judges
Daniel Shays
Executive Order
Jurisdiction
45. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Last time Congress declared war
Redlining
George Washington
De facto and de jure segregation
46. 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.
Native American Smoking
Constitutional Convention
Conference Committee
Bill of Rights
47. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
6 years/2 years
Independent Agency
Dred Scot v. Standford
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
48. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Civil Service Act of 1883
Executive office of the President
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49. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
War Powers Resolution
Executive Agreements
Bill of Rights
Independent Agency
50. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Last time Congress declared war
Buckley v. Valeo
De facto and de jure segregation
War Powers Resolution