Chapter 1-5 Flashcards
Civil rights
Legal or moral claims that citizens are entitled have on government
Speech plus
Speech accompanied by activities such as demonstrations
Police power
Power reserved to the stave government to keep citizens safe
Gibbons vs odgen (1824)
Dispute over interstate monopoly rights
6th amendment
Speedy trail
3rd amendment
Due process
No Child left behind (2001)
Law held school accountably for now kids learned and achieve
1st amendment
Right to press, religion and speech
2nd amendment
Right to bear arms
McCulloch vs Maryland
(1819)
Taxes was uncoustitunional
Clean water Act (1972)
Water pollutes
4th amendment
Search and seizures
5th amendment
Double Jeopardy, self incrimination
State sovereign immunity
Government immunity from lawsuits
Clean Act (1963)
Air pollution
Home rule
Power delegated by a state to a local unit of government to manage its own affairs
8th amendment
Cruel and unusual punishment
Civil liberties
Protect citizens from improper government actions
De jure segregation
Racial segregation that is a direct result of law official policy
Equal protection clause
Provision of 4th amendment citizens equal protection of the law
Prior restraint
Effort by a government agency to blockPublication
Establishment clause
1st amendment clause that says Congress shall make no law respiting an est. Of religion
The new Jersey plan
Each state gets equal Rep.
Expressed power
Powers the constitution grants to the federal government
Checks and balance
Each branch of government is able to influencethe activities of the otherbranches
Liberalism
Promotes individual not group or class freedom
Socialism
People are not competitive are self interested
The Virginia plan
Strong national government with 3 branches
Judical
Decides constitutional of laws
Executive
Enforces laws
Legislative
Passes federal law
