American Government Exam Review
Terms
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- american civil liberties union
- ACLU
- declared innocent, exonerated
- acquittal
- court system, legal battles
- Adversary system
- equal rights for job oppurtunities
- Affirmative action
- foreigner
- alien
- addition to or change in a document
- amendment
- agreement between 2 countries
- alliance
- freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition
- first amendment
- right to bear arms
- 2nd amendment
- search, seizures,
- 4th amendment
- election of president and vice president
- 12th amendment
- prohibition of intoxicating liquors
- 18th amendment
- group pardon
- amnesty
- to make a district larger by taking land
- annexation
- illegal burning of property
- arson
- us constitution states that the government can do anything necessary and proper
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article one section 8
elastic clause - put up money or security to assure your appearance in court
- bail
- alan bakke was denied admission to medical school
- bakke decision
- trial with no jury
- bench trial
- 2 house legislature
- bicameral
- 1 house legistlature
- unicameral
- jailed without a trial
- bill of attainder
- loaning the government money and they pay you back with interest
- bonds
- sent to another courty with a higher authority
- bound over
- separte but equal is not okay
- brown vs board of education
- hierarchial order of the gov
- bureacracy
- CAB
- civil aeronautics board
- meeting to talk
- caucaus
- formal disapproval of a congressman's action by congress
- censure
- official population county
- census
- move to another court
- change of venue
- tabs on other branches of govenment
- checks and balances
- CIA
- central intelligence agency
- rights entitield to an individual at birth
- civil rights
- only party members can vote
- closed primaries
- give and take to reach an agreement
- collective bargaining
- agreement between countries, attack on one is attack on all
- collective security
- exclusive right to produce and sell goods, good for life plus 50 years
- copyright
- real strong candidate will have others elected from their popularity
- coattail effect
- replace one sentence with another
- commute a sentence
- personal and business interest collide
- conflict of interest
- joining together
- consolidation
- basic law of the land
- consitution
- suspicious deaths get investigated
- coroner
- AEC
- atomic energy commission
- candidate with little chance of winning
- dark horse candidate
- segragation by fact
- de facto
- segregation by law
- de jure
- colonies declaring freedom from great britain
- declaration of indpendance
- proof of ownership of property
- deed
- spending money you don't have
- defecit spending
- ruled by the people for the people
- democracy
- peaceful coexistance
- detente
- build up and advertise military strength
- deterrance
- take part in decision directly
- direct democracy
- winner goes directly to general election
- direct primaries
- full financial profile
- disclosure
- paid at point of sale
- direct tax
- DOD
- department of defense
- how we raise a military
- draft
- study of aspects of nature
- ecology
- stealing something entrusted to you
- embezzlement
- right of government to take private land for public use
- eminent domain
- no prayer in public schools
- engle vs vitale
- benefits government must pay
- entitlements
- what effect will this have on the environment
- evironmental impact statement
- EPA
- environmental protection agency
- ERA
- equal rights amendment
- tax on assets of one who dies
- estate tax
- legal when you did it, illegal now
- expost facto law