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| The right to vote in political elections |
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| Points in which a bill can be stopped |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| An agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. |
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| An agreement made among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that the American government would have two houses in Congress |
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| 3/5ths of the population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives |
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| Decisions made by a majority place its interests so far above those of an individual or minority group as to constitute active oppression, comparable to that of tyrants and despots. |
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| Grants and denials of power |
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| Denials: the government cannot imprison someone without evidence or a trial; Grants: the government can punish people, but not to the extent of cruel or unusual punishment. |
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| Separation of powers/checks and balances |
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| Sovereign (Independent) states. |
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| Enumerated powers are those that the U.S. Constitution has specifically granted to the three branches of government. |
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| Necessary and proper clause |
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| The Congress shall have Power to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying out central safety |
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| Two separate spheres of Gov. One at the Federal level and one at the state level. |
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| The United States Congress shall have power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." |
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| which grants citizenship to everyone born in the US and subject to its jurisdiction and protects civil and political rights |
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| The gov. can tap your phone or emails as long as it's reasonable to believe the location is outside of the U.S. |
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| Citizenship/allowed black people to be citizens of the U.S. |
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| Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person. |
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| Selective incorporation is a legal doctrine that protects the rights, immunities and privileges of U.S. citizens from state laws. |
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| was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution had extended the reach of certain limitations on federal government authority set forth in the First Amendment—specifically the provisions protecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press |
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| separation of church and state |
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| United States Supreme Court case that determined that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools. |
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| Creationism + School = not okay unless done so in a educational/secular way. |
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| Creationism + School = not okay unless done so in a educational/secular way. |
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| NY Times = allowed to publish content without fear of being punished or censored |
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| e Court held that government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is directed to inciting, and is likely to incite, imminent lawless action. |
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| ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. |
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| which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts |
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| legal principle which holds that evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights is sometimes inadmissible for a criminal prosecution in a court of law. |
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| ruled that state courts are required under the Fourteenth Amendment to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys |
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| MIRANDA RIGHTS/// inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the rights |
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| The court, decided that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a police officer makes an arrest based on an outstanding warrant in another jurisdiction, and the information is later found to be incorrect because of a negligent error by that agency. |
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| Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) |
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| prescribes procedures for the physical and electronic surveillance and collection of "foreign intelligence information" |
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| you have the ability to believe in any religion you want as long as it doesn’t violate the rights of others. |
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| When was bill of rights included into Cons.? |
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| What supreme court decision established the principle of judicial review? |
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| The Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. |
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| prohibits both Congress and the states from voting in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. |
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| that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread |
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| that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread |
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| that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread |
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| that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread |
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| The Court had ruled that a law criminalizing homosexual sex was unconstitutional. |
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| o state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. |
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| Separate but equal/schools etc. |
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| upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal. |
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