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Chapter 1-5 Flashcards

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Civil rights

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Legal or moral claims that citizens are entitled have on government

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Speech plus

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Speech accompanied by activities such as demonstrations

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Police power

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Power reserved to the stave government to keep citizens safe

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Gibbons vs odgen (1824)

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Dispute over interstate monopoly rights

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6th amendment

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Speedy trail

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3rd amendment

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Due process

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No Child left behind (2001)

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Law held school accountably for now kids learned and achieve

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1st amendment

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Right to press, religion and speech

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2nd amendment

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Right to bear arms

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McCulloch vs Maryland
(1819)

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Taxes was uncoustitunional

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Clean water Act (1972)

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Water pollutes

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4th amendment

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Search and seizures

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5th amendment

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Double Jeopardy, self incrimination

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State sovereign immunity

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Government immunity from lawsuits

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Clean Act (1963)

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Air pollution

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Home rule

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Power delegated by a state to a local unit of government to manage its own affairs

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8th amendment

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Cruel and unusual punishment

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Civil liberties

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Protect citizens from improper government actions

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De jure segregation

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Racial segregation that is a direct result of law official policy

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Equal protection clause

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Provision of 4th amendment citizens equal protection of the law

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Prior restraint

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Effort by a government agency to blockPublication

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Establishment clause

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1st amendment clause that says Congress shall make no law respiting an est. Of religion

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The new Jersey plan

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Each state gets equal Rep.

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Expressed power

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Powers the constitution grants to the federal government

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Checks and balance

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Each branch of government is able to influencethe activities of the otherbranches

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Liberalism

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Promotes individual not group or class freedom

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Socialism

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People are not competitive are self interested

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The Virginia plan

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Strong national government with 3 branches

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Judical

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Decides constitutional of laws

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Executive

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Enforces laws

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Legislative

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Passes federal law

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