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WGU history
Stack #54658
| wgu social science | Answer |
|---|---|
| In 1789, who wrote seventeen amendments? | James Madison |
| How many amendments did congress pass in 1789? | 12 |
| By 1791, the states had ratified how many amendents? | 10 |
| The first eight amendments were copied from...... | the Virginia Declaration of Rights written by George Mason |
| The 9th and 10th amendment limited the ..... | power of the federal government. |
| What is amendment 1? | Political process rights-freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and protest |
| What is amendment 2? | State militias or individual right to arms |
| What is amendment 3? | Quartering-no forced housing of military |
| What is amendment 4 ? | Search and seizure-requires warrants for searches. |
| What is amendment 5? | Criminal rights-grand juries and due process; protection from self-incrimination, double jeopardy, and taking property without compensation. |
| What is amendment 6? | Court procedures-speedy and public trails; to be informed of charges, confront witnesses, issue subpoenas, have assistance of counsel. |
| What is amendment 7? | Guarantees a speedy and public trail. |
| What is amendment 8? | Bail/punishment-prevents excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishment. |
| What is amendment 9? | Other rights-other non-enumerated rights quaranteed. |
| What is amendment 10? | Other powers-non-enumerated powers guaranteed to the states or the people. |
| All amendments except.....apply to all states | 2nd, 3rd, and 8th |
| What are the three theories of individual rights and government? | Natural rights, cultural rights, and the U.S. Constitution. |
| What does incorporation mean? | The doctrine of incorporation allows the Surpreme Court to apply the Bill of Rights to state governments. |
| What are natural rights? | There is no objective standard. |
| Culture rights change as .... | the culture changes. |
| Constitutional rights are subject to differences...... | interpretation and implementation. |
| Maintaining vital individual rights is an...... | on going job for everyone. |
| What is the 14th amendment? | It formally established legal equality. No state shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" |
| When did woman have the right to vote? | The 19th amendment was ratified in 1920. |
| What was the ''grandfather clause"? | Late 19th and 20th centuries stated that any male could vote as long as his grandfather had voted-this was to keep blacks from voting. |
| What was the outcome of the Slaughter-House cases(1868)? | The Supreme Court declared that the equal protection clause was intednded to apply only to discrimination against African-Americans. |
| What were Jim Crow Laws? | Laws from the 1870-1950's that required the separation of whites from blacks in transportation, schools, cemeteries,etc.... |
| What are the three standards clarified and expanded the 14th Amendment's original text? | Rational relation, Strict scrutiny and Intermediate-level scrutiny |
| What was intermediate-level scrutiny? | Gender-discrimination claims. |
| What was Strict scrutiny? | Race-discrimination claims |
| What was Ration relation? | When classifying people, is the government's action reasonable related to a legitimate governmental purpose? |
| What is the establishment clause? | Prohibits governmental establishment or support for any religion. |
| What is the Lemon Test? | It is a test to determine whether or not a law related to religion violated the Constitution. |
| What are the three Lemon questions? | Is the law's purpose to further religion?-Is the law's primary effect to inhibit or advance religion?-Does the law create excessive entanglements between government and religion? |
| What is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993? | Congress attempts to set a definitive standard for the Supreme Court to follow in judging the constitutionality of religious actions. |
| What is the ACLU? | American Civil Liberties Union- a nonprofit membership organization devoted to protecting the basic civil liberties of all Americans and extending them to groups that have traditionally been denied their basic civil rights. |
| What is the NAACP? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-Founded in 1909 is the nation's largest and strongest civil rights organization. |
| Who is Henry David Thoreau? | New England author who expressed his beliefs of society and government in such works as Walden and "Civil Disobedience." |
| What is the Iron Triangle? | The iron trangle is the legislative committees, bureaucratic government agencies, and interest groups gather to make policy. |
| What is the NRA? | National Rifle Association. |
| What is the National Firarms Act? | The nation's first federal gun control law, benning "gangster-type weapons" such as machine guns and sawed-off shotguns. |
| What is the Federal Gun Control Act (1968)? | Passed after the asassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Marin Luther King, Jr.-banned the ordering by mail of certain guns-required serial numbers on all guns-required gun dealers to be licensed |
| what is the "exclusionary rule"? | Illegally obtained evidence is inadmissible in court. |
| What limits the police? | The U.S. Constitution and state constitutions. |
| What is due process? | The constitutional requirement that grants every citizen a fair trail and protection against unreasonable governmental procedures. |
| What is double jeopardy? | A defendant cannot be tried or punished for the same crime twice. |
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