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37 Cards in this Set
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The official leader of the Senate is |
Vice president |
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The most important function of Congress is to |
Make laws |
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Before a law is passed it first must be debated and adjusted. This stage is called |
A Bill |
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A president can sign a bill _ a bill or do nothing |
Veto |
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The president is sometimes called the |
The chief executive |
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If the president cannot for any reason carry out his duties the _ becomes president |
Vice president |
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Wich is not a qualification to become president |
45 years old |
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How often do the voters in the united States elect a president |
4 years |
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The president is the _ of all the armed forces |
Commander in chief |
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The _ amendment States a president can only serve two terms |
22nd |
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The president submits a yearly _ to Congress to show how he would like how funds are spent |
Budget |
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The war powers act limits the military power of the |
President |
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The executive branch has 15 departments each leader makes up the president's |
Cabinet |
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The president gives the state of Union message each year. He does this to share the nation the condition of the |
Country |
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The supreme Court is the _ court in the nation |
Highest |
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There are _ associate justices and one chief justice on the supreme court |
8 |
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The supreme Court may decide that a law is |
Unconstitutional |
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The President appoints a person to become a Supreme Court justice. His selection must be approved to serve by the |
Senate |
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Supreme Court decisions have at times brought changes to the |
Constitution |
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When the Supreme Court decides a case one judge writes what is the majority __ |
Opinion |
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The main character in anthem is |
Equality 7-2521 |
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This case failed to overturn Louisiana's separate car act which bared blacks from riding in the same railway car as whitez |
Please vs ferguson |
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This case was brought by a woman who had two children but wanted to legally terminate her third pregnancy |
Roe v wade |
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This case addressed the issue of the legality and rights of who wanted to practice interracial marriage |
Loving v virginia |
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This case reaffirmed the rights of the people to bear arms even if they don't belong to a militia |
District of Colombia v heller |
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This case refers the separate but equal ruling of Plessy vs Ferguson by ending the practice of segregation in schools |
Brown v board of education |
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This case failed to overturn the ruling that the state had a right to enter in a group of individuals if the state being them a security threat to the country |
Korematsu v united states |
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This case mandated that police officers must follow a certain procedure to epsier a criminal suspects Fifth Amendment privileged against self-incrimination |
Miranda vs Arizona |
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This case underscored the limitations of executive privilege by ruling that neither separation of powers or issues of the confidentiality is coz for unlimited executive power |
United States vs Nixon |
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Ernesto Miranda |
Gave a confession without understanding his Fifth Amendment rights |
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Fred kore |
Refuse to answer an internment camp |
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Jane Roe |
Her case gave women the right to end a pregnancy |
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Hammer Plessy |
He was not allowed to write in the light rail car |
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Richard loving |
So to make interracial marriage legal |
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Second Amendment |
Was upheld in the Heller case |
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George Wallace |
Stood in front of college campus to block black students |
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Richard Nixon |
Refuse to handover secretly recorded taped conversations |