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1. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Congressional Oversight
Presidential Mandate
Jim Crow Laws
Gouverneur Morris
2. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Daniel Shays
Power to Declare War
The Declaration of Independence.
Logrolling
3. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Articles of Confederation
Pork Barrel Legislation
State of the Union Address
Daniel Shays
4. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Executive office of the President
Thomas Jefferson
President's Inherent Powers
Devolution
5. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Civil Service Act of 1883
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
War Powers Resolution
6. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
Dred Scot v. Standford
Administrative Rule Making
Clear and Present Danger Test
Brown v. Board of Education
7. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
Jurisdiction
Critical Period
The Exclusionary Rule
Prior Restraint
8. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Administrative Rule Making
The Federalist Papers
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
2/3 from Congress
9. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Jurisdiction
9
Last time Congress declared war
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
10. 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.
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Around 100
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
11. % of House that get reelected
6 years/2 years
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
90% or higher
CA Prop 187
12. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Filibuster
8th Amendment
CA Prop 187
13. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
14th Amendment
Independent Agency
The Right of Due Process
14. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Last time Congress declared war
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Devolution
Class Action Suit
15. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Congressional Oversight
Standing
Strict Scrutiny
Filibuster
16. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Alexander Hamilton
Brown v. Board of Education
Executive office of the President
War Powers Resolution
17. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
State of the Union Address
American Government and Politics
Stare Decisis
Executive Agreements
18. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
Buckley v. Valeo
The Right of Due Process
Class Action Suit
Critical Period
19. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Government Corporation
Griswald v. Connecticut
The Federalist Papers
20. Congress because they're tied to the people.
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21. 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.
Delegated Powers
American Government and Politics
Speaker of the House
De facto and de jure segregation
22. Most common job of Senators
George Washington
Marbury v. Madison
Lawyers
Regulatory Agency
23. Implemented following the successful revolt of the British colonies in North America against imperial rule - the articles served as the national government from 1781-1787.
Administrative Rule Making
State of the Union Address
Articles of Confederation
War Powers Resolution
24. 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.
Dred Scot v. Standford
Executive Order
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
President's Inherent Powers
25. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Brown v. Board of Education
Activist Judges
Civil Service Act of 1883
Griswald v. Connecticut
26. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Class Action Suit
Shays' Rebellion
Standing
27. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Daniel Shays
6 years/2 years
Gouverneur Morris
Shays' Rebellion
28. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
The Federalist Papers
Pork Barrel Legislation
Miranda v. Arizona
29. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
Amicus Curiae
Habeas Corpus
Dred Scot v. Standford
The Exclusionary Rule
30. 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
Government Corporation
Thomas Jefferson
Gouverneur Morris
Marbury v. Madison
31. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
Jim Crow Laws
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
De facto and de jure segregation
2/3 from Congress
32. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
90% or higher
Shays' Rebellion
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Brown v. Board of Education
33. 30 minutes.
Lawrence v. Texas
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Buckley v. Valeo
Constitutional Convention
34. 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
War Powers Resolution
Brown v. Board of Education
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
35. 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.
2/3 from Congress
Filibuster
Buckley v. Valeo
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
36. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Standing
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Buckley v. Valeo
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
37. 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.
Senatorial Courtesy
Shays' Rebellion
Activist Judges
Speaker of the House
38. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
Standing
Administrative Rule Making
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
James Madison
39. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
De facto and de jure segregation
Strict Scrutiny
Redlining
40. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Brown v. Board of Education
Gideon v. Wainwright
Gouverneur Morris
Executive office of the President
41. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Activist Judges
Pork Barrel Legislation
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
42. 13th - abolished slavery. 14th - guaranteed equal protection and due process. 15th - guarenteed voting rights for African American men.
Lawyers
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Amicus Curiae
43. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Amicus Curiae
Administrative Rule Making
American Government and Politics
Habeas Corpus
44. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
Logrolling
Government Corporation
14th Amendment
American Government and Politics
45. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
6 years/2 years
Lawrence v. Texas
Redlining
Plessy v. Fergueson
46. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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47. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Last time Congress declared war
Lawrence v. Texas
The Right of Due Process
Constitutional Convention
48. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Power of the Federal Reserve
Alexander Hamilton
Standing
Regulatory Agency
49. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Gouverneur Morris
Activist Judges
9
Bill of Rights
50. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Standing
Civil Service Act of 1883
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