1. Jeopardy

2. Civil rights & Civil Liberties
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Constitution
100
100
100
100
100
200
200
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200
Jeopardy
300
300
300
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300
Names:__________________________________________________________________
400
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500

3. What are the Articles of Confederation?
Constitution 100 Points
The first adopted written constitution of the newly independent United States. Because of it’s weaknesses, the period of time it governed became known as the critical period.
What are the Articles of Confederation?

4. What are the Federalist Papers?
Constitution 200 Points
85 Essays written to argue for establishing a government with three distinctive and separate powers.
What are the Federalist Papers?

5. The Constitution 300 Points
A Plan offered at the Convention to urge the delegates to create a legislature based on equal state representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?

6. What is the elastic clause?
Constitution 400 Points
Found in Article I, it gives Congress the power to make “all laws necessary and proper” to carry out the other defined powers of Congress. Also known as the ____________________________
What is the elastic clause?

7. Constitution 500 Points
The overall division of power between the federal government and state governments; as defined in the Tenth Amendment.
What is Federalism?

8. Civil Rights & Civil Liberties for 100 Points
The ____ amendment makes most of the rights contained in the Bill or Rights applicable to the states.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?

9. Civil Rights & Civil Liberties for 200 Points
The clear-and-present-danger test devised by the Supreme Court was designed to define the conditions under which public authorities could limit ___________________.
What is free speech?

10. Civil Rights & Civil Liberties for 300 Points
The two clauses in the first Amendment dealing with religion.
What are the free exercise clause & the establishment clause?

11. Civil Rights & Civil Liberties for 400 Points
The two clauses in the fourteenth Amendment used to apply the Bill of Rights to the state level.
What are equal protection and due process?

12. Civil Rights & Civil Liberties for 500 Points
The Supreme Court case involving the principle of “one person, one vote”.
What is Baker v. Carr?

13. Executive for 100 Points
The president’s role as chief diplomat is derived from his ______________ powers
What are delegated?

14. What is the War Powers Resolution?
Executive for 200 Points
Requires that the president notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops.
What is the War Powers Resolution?

15. What are commander-in-chief, appoint ambassadors, negotiate treaties?
Executive for 300 Points
Two formal powers derived from the Constitution dealing with foreign policy.
What are commander-in-chief, appoint ambassadors, negotiate treaties?

16. Executive for 400 Points
The tendency of states to choose an early date on the primary calendar
What is front-loading?

17. What are Executive Agreements?
Executive for 500 Points
It does not require Senate approval, but may require congressional allocation of funds for implementation.
What are Executive Agreements?

18. Legislative for 100 Points
The boundary lines of congressional districts are drawn by
What are state legislatures?

19. Legislative for 200 Points
The details of legislation are usually worked out in _________________.
What are subcommittees?

20. Legislative for 300 Points
Places a bill on the legislative calendar, limit time for debate and determine the type of amendments allowed.
What is the Rules Committee?

21. Legislative for 400 Points
The committee that resolves the differences between House and Senate versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?

22. What is an Iron Triangle?
Legislative 500 Points
An administrative agency, an interest group, and a congressional committee
What is an Iron Triangle?

23. Supreme Court 100 Points
“friend of the court” briefs that may be sent to support the position of one side or the other.
What is amicus curiae?

24. Supreme Court 200 Points
Case established the principle that Congress has sole authority over interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?

25. What is judicial activism?
Supreme Court 300 Points
A philosophy of judicial review that results in decisions that overturn precedent.
What is judicial activism?

26. What is Writ of certiorari?
Supreme Court 400 Points
Latin for “to be made more certain,” the process in which the Supreme Court accepts written briefs on appeal on the “rule of four” justices voting to hear a case.
What is Writ of certiorari?

27. What is original jurisdiction?
Supreme Court 500 Points
Cases heard by the Supreme Court that do not come on appeal and that “affect ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party.
What is original jurisdiction?