Government Agencies and Judicial

Question 1

the purpose of bureaucracies in their involvement with policy & politics, bureaucracies

Answer 1

4 characteristics of any bureaucracy and any agency: hierarchical and pyramidal authority, division of labor is based on skill set, lots of rules and regulations, must implement policy as dictated by politics (bureaucracy must follow rules of congress).

Question 2

define judicial review

Answer 2

-the power to decide what is and what is not constitutional

Question 3

Marbury v. Madison

Answer 3

Judiciary act of 1789 unconstitutional- congress is not allowed to practice judicial review, it belongs to the courts.

Question 4

Gideon v. Wainwright

Answer 4

1963 A case in which the Court held that the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a right of legal counsel ( an attorney )to anyone accused of a crime.

Question 5

Griswold v. Connecticut,

Answer 5

1965 use of birth control by married couples

Question 6

Roe v. Wade

Answer 6

1973 right to obtain an abortion

Question 7

Miranda v. Arizona

Answer 7

under the Fifth Amendment, any statements that a defendant in custody makes during an interrogation are admissible as evidence at a criminal trial only if law enforcement told the defendant of the right to remain silent and the right to speak with an attorney before the interrogation started, and the rights were either exercised or waived in a knowing, voluntary, and intelligent manner.

Question 8

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 8

(1896) The Supreme court established the “separate but equal” doctrine

Question 9

the women who sit on the Supreme Court

Answer 9

Coney Barrett will join two other women, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, on the bench. The first woman confirmed to the Supreme Court, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, retired in 2006.

Question 10

who the Chief Justice is

Answer 10

The chief justice is appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate and has life tenure. His primary functions are to preside over the Supreme Court in its public sessions when the court is hearing arguments and during its private conferences when it is discussing and deciding cases. Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye is the 28th chief justice of the State of California. She was sworn into office on January 3, 2011, and is the first Asian-Filipina American and the second woman to serve as the state’s chief justice.

Question 11

define original and appellate jurisdiction

Answer 11

original jurisdiction- a case is heard for the first time

Appellate jurisdiction- a court hears a case on appeal from a lower court and may change the lower court’s decision