Post on 03-Jan-2016
AmendmentsGrabBag
Landmark court cases
Separation of Powers
Historic
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Question: Which amendment protects a defendant from self incrimination?
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Answer: 5th amendment
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Question: Which amendment protects your right to bear arms?
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Answer: 2nd amendment
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Question: Which amendment protects your right to free speech?
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Answer: 1st amendment
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Question: Which amendment entitles the defendant to be provided a lawyer at the time of arrest?
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Answer: 6th amendment
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Question: Which amendment protects you from cruel and unusual punishment?
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Answer: 8th amendment
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Question: What are the three branches of government?
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Answer: Executive, Legislative and Judicial
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Question: Which branch makes the laws?
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Answer: Legislative Branch
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Question: Which branch carries out the laws passed by Congress?
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Answer: Executive Branch
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Question: Which branch interprets or explains the laws?
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Answer: Judicial Branch
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Question: What doctrine keeps the branches equal in power?
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Answer: The System of Checks and Balances
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Question: What is the precedent for Judicial Review?
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Answer: Marbury v. Madison
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Question: Which case ruled that a person who is arrested must be informed of his or her rights?
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Answer: Miranda v. Arizona
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Question: What case stated that states could not prohibit abortion under certain conditions during the first six months of pregnancy?
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Landmark Court Cases for 3
Answer: Roe v. Wade
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Question: What case declared the “separate but equal doctrine” was unconstitutional?
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Landmark Court Cases for 4
Answer: Brown v. The Board of Education
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Question: What case declared “reverse discrimination” when a white man was refused entrance to medical school because of a minority quota system?
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Answer: University of California v. Bakke,
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Question: Who wrote the declaration of Independence?
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Answer: Thomas Jefferson
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Question: A two house legislature
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Answer:
Bicameral
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Question: Who proposed the three branches of government?
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Answer: Montesquieu
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Question: The idea that there should be an agreement between the people and the government that limits the rights and duties of each.
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Answer: Social Contract Theory
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Question: Signed in 1215, this document laid the foundation for government that promotes the public good.
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Answer: Magna Carta
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Question: A system of government in which the states yield supreme authority to a central government.
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Answer: Federalism
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Question: The excusing of a public offense
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Answer: Pardon
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Question: The procedure of removing a public official by popular vote.
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Answer: Recall
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Question: An earlier action that serves as a justification for a later action.
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Answer: precedent
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Question: What takes place when the political party in power redraws congressional district boundaries to its advantage and to the disadvantage of the opposing party?
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Answer: Gerrymandering
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