Ch.2 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Flashcards
What’re the three branches of national government?
Executive (president)
Judicial (courts)
Legislative (congress)
What was the first case to show the power of the Necessary and Proper Clause?
McCulloch v. Maryland
Who advocated a wall of separation between church and state?
Thomas Jefferson
What case ruled that if commerce involved more than one state, then it was interstate commerce?
Gibbons v. Ogden
A business right of freedom of speech is found in what amendment?
1st
What were the people who were in opposition to the constitution as originally written and who is/are examples of that type of individual?
Anti-federalists, alexander hamilton
What is the Great Compromise of the constitutional convention also called
the Connecticut compromise
what case overruled the separate but equal doctrine?
Brown v. Board of Education
Reverse Incorporation uses what amendments?
5th & 14th
Jim Crow laws:
included the white primary in texas
How did the representatives to the Constitutional Convention deal with the issue of who could vote?
set age requirement to 21, had to own land, any white person
If a state was to pass a law that treats one race differently from another, how would the state government have to justify the difference?
Substantial interest test
what are Sunday laws
when a business cannot be open on Sunday and they are also called blue laws
what is the most important clause in the constitution to the business world?
commerce among the state
the free exercise clause is found in what amendment
1st
