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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.
Buckley v. Valeo
Speaker of the House
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
90% or higher
2. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Administrative Rule Making
Lawyers
2/3 from Congress
Government Corporation
3. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Jim Crow Laws
14th Amendment
Habeas Corpus
Gideon v. Wainwright
4. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Power to Declare War
Bill of Rights
George Washington
Native American Smoking
5. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
6. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
14th Amendment
Prior Restraint
Plessy v. Fergueson
4th Amendment protections
7. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
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8. Not allowed.
Lawyers
Native American Smoking
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Marbury v. Madison
9. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Congressional Oversight
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Administrative Rule Making
Executive Agreements
10. An effort by a gov't agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship.
Activist Judges
Prior Restraint
Jurisdiction
Strict Scrutiny
11. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Regulatory Agency
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Pork Barrel Legislation
Brown v. Board of Education
12. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
Plessy v. Fergueson
The Federalist Papers
Constitutional Convention
8th Amendment
13. 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
Lawyers
Class Action Suit
8th Amendment
14. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Gideon v. Wainwright
De facto and de jure segregation
8th Amendment
Alexander Hamilton
15. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Executive office of the President
8th Amendment
Habeas Corpus
16. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Standing
Miranda v. Arizona
Administrative Rule Making
Independent Agency
17. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
14th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Presidential Mandate
18. 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
Marbury v. Madison
2/3 from Congress
Thomas Jefferson
Habeas Corpus
19. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Senatorial Courtesy
Congressional Oversight
Native American Smoking
Delegated Powers
20. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Executive Order
Prior Restraint
State of the Union Address
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
21. 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.
Devolution
Redlining
Lawyers
Conference Committee
22. The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government).
Devolution
Lawyers
Native American Smoking
Plessy v. Fergueson
23. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Last time Congress declared war
Civil Service Act of 1883
Filibuster
Amicus Curiae
24. Term of Senate/House
6 years/2 years
Conference Committee
Critical Period
Plessy v. Fergueson
25. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
Jim Crow Laws
State of the Union Address
Activist Judges
Filibuster
26. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
The Declaration of Independence.
State of the Union Address
Regulatory Agency
27. Gave equal right to black people covering voting - employment - public accommodation - and educations.
Standing
Pork Barrel Legislation
4th Amendment protections
Civil Rights Act of 1964
28. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Class Action Suit
Gouverneur Morris
Around 100
Griswald v. Connecticut
29. 13th - abolished slavery. 14th - guaranteed equal protection and due process. 15th - guarenteed voting rights for African American men.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Native American Smoking
Delegated Powers
30. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
Habeas Corpus
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Executive Agreements
Executive office of the President
31. 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.
Executive office of the President
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Senatorial Courtesy
State of the Union Address
32. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Class Action Suit
Redlining
Executive Agreements
33. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Standing
James Madison
Brown v. Board of Education
34. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Griswald v. Connecticut
Critical Period
Lawrence v. Texas
35. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Administrative Rule Making
CA Prop 187
Class Action Suit
36. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
Clear and Present Danger Test
Around 100
President's Appointment Power
Bill of Rights
37. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
The Declaration of Independence.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Critical Period
Power to Declare War
38. 30 minutes.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Filibuster
39. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
Redlining
Power of the Federal Reserve
Jurisdiction
Speaker of the House
40. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Stare Decisis
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Activist Judges
4th Amendment protections
41. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
Griswald v. Connecticut
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Around 100
Clear and Present Danger Test
42. 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
Pork Barrel Legislation
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Griswald v. Connecticut
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
43. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Miranda v. Arizona
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
De facto and de jure segregation
44. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
90% or higher
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
6 years/2 years
45. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
War Powers Resolution
Prior Restraint
2/3 from Congress
Standing
46. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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47. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Filibuster
Buckley v. Valeo
Thomas Jefferson
9
48. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
The Exclusionary Rule
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Bill of Rights
State of the Union Address
49. Most common job of Senators
Jim Crow Laws
Lawyers
Standing
James Madison
50. Congress because they're tied to the people.
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