We The People- Unit 3(terms)

Question 0

The power of the courts to declare laws and actions of the local and state governments or the national government invalid if they are found to contradict the u.s. Constitution?

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Judicial review

Question 1

A change in or addition of o a legal document.

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Amendment

Question 2

According to natural rights philosophy, people always retain their basic rights, but provisionally entrust or assign certain powers to their government for certain, limited purposes. The powers of government that are granted by the people, and the people can take them back if government fails to fulfill its purposes?

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Delegated powers

Question 3

The running of a government by political parties?

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Party system

Question 4

The support given by an influential person. Also, the power of a political official to control appointments to office?

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Patronage

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A list of the policies and priorities of a political party?

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Platform

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An organization seeking to achieve political power by electing members to public office so that its political philosophy is reflected in public policy

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Political party

Question 7

An incitement to rebellion

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Sedition

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The choice of candidates of a political party for president and vise president?

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Ticket

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Opponents of slavery who wished to put an end to the institution

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Abolitionists

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Provisions of laws passed in the South of the Civil War stating that citizens could vote only if their grandfathers had been allowed to vote

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Grandfather clause

Question 11

A test to prove a person’s abilities to read and write. Until 1964, such tests were used in various states to prevent minorities from voting

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Literacy test

Question 12

A tax hat voters in many states were required to pay in order to exercise their right to vote. Also used until 1964 to prevent African American from voting

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Poll tax

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The formal withdrawal from membership in an organization, association, or alliance.

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Secession

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A system of justice in which court trials are essentially contests between accuser and accused that take place before an impartial judge or jury.

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Adversary system

Question 15

A requirement stated in Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments that treatment by state and federal governments in matters of life, liberty, or property of individuals be reasonable, fair, and follow known rules and procedures.

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Due process of law

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Fundamental, or basic, rights are those such as life, liberty, and property that cannot be taken away.

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Fundamental rights

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The process through which the u.s. Supreme Court has applied the due process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to extend the reach of the Bill of Rights to include protection from interference by states

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Incorporation

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A trial system in which a judicial official or set of officials acts as both prosecutor and judge, questioning witnesses, examining evidence, and reaching a verdict

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Inquisitorial system

Question 19

The principle that government must respect all, not some of a person’s legal rights. Government must not subject individuals to unreasonable, unfair, or arbitrary treatment

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Procedural due process

Question 20

Judicial interpretations of the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution requiring the content of law to be fair and reasonable

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Substantive due process

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Equality in all aspects of life, such as wealth, standards of living, medical care, and working conditions

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Equality of condition

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A rights guaranteed by both federal and many state laws against discrimination in employment, education, housing, or credit rights due to a person’s race, color, sex and sometimes sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, or handicap.

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Equality of opportunity

Question 23

In U.S. constitutional law, intermediate scrutiny refers to the middle level of scrutiny applied by courts deciding constitutional issues through judicial review

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Intermediate scrutiny

Question 24

In U.S. constitutional law, it refers to the lowest level of scrutiny applied by courts deciding constitutional issues through judicial review

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Rational basis

Question 25

The argument, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, but later reversed, that racially segregated public facilities are constitutional if those facilities are of equal quality

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Separate but equal

Question 26

Under U.S. constitutional law, it refers to the highest level of scrutiny used by courts reviewing constitutional legitimacy

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Strict scrutiny

Question 27

Giving the right to vote to a person or category of persons.

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Enfranchisement

Question 28

A right or privilege, in the context of American politics, it means the right to vote.

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Franchise