1st Quarter Exam Flashcards by Aimee Rodwig

National law always trumps state law

National supremacy

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Everyone votes

Direct democracy

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Can be aquired or born into

Citizenship

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Define the 2 kinds of citizenship

Jus sanguine- your parents are citizens of a country, therefore you are too, jus soli- your parents are not citizens in a country but you are born there, therefore you can choose to be a citizen or not

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Act stating the president can send troops overseas for 60 days, at which time congress has to vote on whether or not to send them back

War powers act

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What is the disability amendment or how to fill a vacancy in the vice Pres. office?

25th amendment

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What is the OMB and what does it do?

The Office of Management and Budget, and they write things for the president

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What have we not done since 1941?

Declared a war

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What is dependent on the president sometimes and sometimes not?

Executive agencies

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What are run like businesses?

Government corporations

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What is a government where one man rules?

Dictatorship

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What is the word for acquiring citizenship?

Naturalization

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What was it called when the population increased by 10 times at 1 million a year?

Great migration

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What are the two types of aliens?

Temporary and un documented, and Tourists

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What are aliens that plan on staying in the country?

Undocumented and temporary aliens

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What are aliens that plan on leaving the country?

Tourists

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What are people called who come into the country and want to be a citizen?

Immigrants

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What is it called when one is kicked out of the country?

Deportation

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The power to rule ourselves rests in ourselves

Popular sovereignty

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What is a government that can only do what it’s people allow it?

Limited government

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What is The law of the common people and set by a precedent?

Common-law

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What is a legal right to operate a government?

A charter

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What is something that has been done before, a case that influence a later case?

Precedent

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What is a tax on paper goods?

Stamp act

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What is a tax on finished goods?

Townshend act

What is a tax on tea?

The tea act

What is a effective propaganda book written by Thomas Paine?

Common sense

What is English legislature?

Parliament

What is a word for two houses in Legislature?

Bicameral

What was the first agreement to limit the powers of the King?

The Magna Carta

What is legislative law?

Statutory law

What was the first agreement for self-government in colonies?

The Mayflower compact

What was it called when colonists Tossed tea into the harbor, and English punished us?

The Boston tea party

What restricted all rights after the boston tea party?

The intolerable act

Who set up mail between leaders in a revolution?

Committee of correspondence

What was a de facto government during the war?

Second Continental Congress

What is the first legal government?

The articles of Confederation

What was mostly Thomas Jefferson's words, plagiarized, and just to document?

Declaration of Independence

What states the law?

The US Constitution

What is a law that prevents things that haven't happened yet?

Equity law

What are 435 representatives in the house divided between?

Congressional districts

What are the people that congressmen represent?

Constituents

What is the types of congressional leadership?

Majority and minority leaders and whips, and the speaker

What are four types of committees?

Standing sub joint and conference

What is the word that means to try the president or kick him out of office?

Impeachment

Ending of a bill or filibuster

Cloture

What says you must be accused to be arrested?

Habeas corpus

What is talking for a long time to avoid voting on a bill?

Filibuster

What is the work congressman do for individuals?

Casework

What is it called when something is made illegal when it was not before?

Ex post facto

What is a metaphor for bringing federal money back to your state?

Pork-barrel

What is drawing district lines to the benefit of the majority?

Gerrymandering

Who's the legislature uses a bill to arrest someone

Bill of attainder

What is an unrelated amendment attached to a bill that will pass?

Rider

Senators have free postage

Franking

What is hiding or avoiding debate on a bill or kill it in a committee called?

Pigeonhole

What are peppers not stated in the constitution?

Implied powers

What are powers stated in the constitution?

Expressed powers

To deny a bill

Veto

What is a pocket veto?

When the president does not pass or veto a bill and Congress adjourns before his 10 day time window is up

What is a pocket pass?

When the president does not pass or veto a bill and his ten-day time window is up and Congress is still in session

Congress does what, but not demographically?

Represents us

What is a forgiveness for federal crime that the Pres. Grant

Pardon

What is a postponement of punishment?

Reprieve

What is a pardon for a group?

Amnesty

What is an agreement between two heads of state, and legally binding but does not need Congress approval?

An executive agreement

What has the force of the law but is not actually a law?

An executive order

What is the time when is in office?

A term

What is the term of Congress?

Two years

What is the term of Pres.?

Four years

What is the term of the Supreme Court?

Life

What is the term of the house?

Two years

What is the term of the senator?

Six years

What is the term limit of the vice president?

10 years or two terms

What is original jurisdiction?

When a case starts in the District Court

What is appellate jurisdiction?

When the appeals court has jurisdiction, and their appeal case has come from a lower court

What is in order to appear in court?

Subpoena

What is a court order for search or arrest?

Warrant

What is the case that says it is the power of the courts to interpret the Constitution?

Marbury versus Madison

What is a legal argument that can be written or oral?

Brief

What is the order in which cases are heard question

The docket

What is jurisdiction should buy more than one court?

Concurrent jurisdiction

What are the four types of Supreme Court opinions?

Unanimous, concurrent, majority, dissenting

When a bill is remanded it is what?

Sent back to a lower court

What is Latin for let the decision stand?

Stare decisis

When a decision is disagreed with it is what?

Reversed

What are the lower courts created by Congress?

Inferior courts

What case probably defines interstate commerce?

Gibbon versus Ogden

What is commerce power?

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