Civics Fall Final
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- Qualifications for Senate member
- 30 years old, live in US for 9 years, US citizen, live in state you represent
- executive branch
- largest branch of government
- Vice President
- presides over the Senate
- prosecution
- a government body that brings charges against a person accused of breaking the law
- James Madison
- 4th President
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- separate but equal facilities are constitutional
- executive privilege
- right of president to keep information secret from Congress & the courts
- bureaucracy
- organization of government departments, agencies, & offices
- Barack Obama
- Illinois senator (current president elect)
- foreign policy
- set of plans that guides relationships with other countries
- cabinet
- group of policy advisors to the President
- Dred Scott
- owning slaves is constitutional
- Qualifications for President & Vice President
- 35 years old, natural born citizen, live in US for 14 years
- Dick Durbin
- Illinois senator
- rules
- specific expectations about how people should act
- tyranny refers to?
- a government that abuses it power
- John Tyler
- 10th President
- President
- head, or chief of staff of the executive branch
- affirmative action
- an active policy to hire and promote more minorities and women
- Martin Van Buren
- 8th President
- Missouri Compromise
- divided new lands into 'slave' & 'free' territories
- John Adams
- 2nd President
- original jurisdiction
- the authority to hear a case first
- Who is Congress?
- both the Senate and the House of Representatives
- James Monroe
- 5th President
- constitution
- a written plan of government
- Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation
- separate hiring policies for men and women are unconstitutional
- heritage
- traditions passed down from past generations
- federalism
- division of power between national and state governments
- William H. Harrison
- 9th President
- due process of law
- government must treat accused persons according to rules established by law
- socialization
- learning how to participate in a group
- Qualifications for House of Representatives
- 25 years old, live in US for 7 years, US citizen, live in state you represent
- double jeopardy
- government can not put a person on trial twice for the same crime
- precedent
- guideline for how similar court cases should be decided in the future
- Thomas Jefferson
- 3rd President
- suffrage
- the right to vote
- constituents
- people a member of Congress represents
- census
- official count of population (every 10yrs)
- In the colonial period, the right to vote was held by?
- only white men who owned a certain amount of land
- bicameral
- composed of two houses
- The Great Compromise established?
- a two house legislature
- services
- work that people pay to have someone do for them
- Skokie case
- Supreme Court ruled that the Nazis had the right to freedom of expression
- segregation
- separation of blacks and whites in public places
- separation of powers
- power is divided among the three branches of government
- checks & balances
- a system that gives each branch of government ways to limit the power of the other branches
- Andrew Jackson
- 7th President
- John Quincy Adams
- 6th President
- judicial branch
- interprets the laws
- Brown v. Board of Education
- separate but equal facilities are unconstitutional
- appeal
- to ask a higher court to review a decision
- veto
- to reject a bill
- executive branch
- carries out or executes the laws
- University of California Regents v. Bakke
- discriminating against whites only because of their race is unconstitutional
- Tinker case
- Supreme Court ruled that armbands are a form of speech protected by the 1st amendment
- Rod Blagojevich
- Illinois governor
- George Washington
- 1st President
- legislative branch
- makes the laws
- defendant
- a party who answers a complaint in court
- Who won over Congress in the recent mid-term election?
- Democrats
- plaintiff
- an individual or group that brings a complaint against another party
- filibuster
- use of long speeches to prevent a vote on a bill
- market
- place where goods and services are exchanged
- Nancy Pelosi
- the current Speaker of the House
- eminent domain
- government has power to take private property for public use