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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Answer: Roe v. Wade

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Question: What case declared the “separate but equal doctrine” was unconstitutional?

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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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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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