Congress The Executive The Courts The Bill of Rights Later Amedments
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What is The House
Article I Section 2 Clause 1 tells us this chamber will be chosen every two years by the people in each state who are qualified to vote for the most numerous branch of each state's legislature.
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What is Article II section 2
This section outlines the foreign powers of the executive branch including the commander in chief power.
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What is Original jurisdiction
"In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have..."
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What is 3rd amendment
This amendment regarding certain military actions remains unincorporated in its entirety.
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What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
The triumvirate Civil War Amendments
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What is The Senate
To be part of this body outlined in Article I section 3 you must be at least 30 years old.
200
What is 2/3 votes
Required for veto overrides and ratifying treaties
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What is Article III Section 2
This section ensures all criminal cases will be tried by jury in the jurisdiction where the crime was committed.
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What is Right to Counsel (6th Amendment)
This provision was incorporated in Gideon v Wainwright
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What is the 17th Amendment
Secured the Direct Election of Senators
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What is Article I section 5
This section discusses the rules and proceedings of both houses.
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What is the Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln used his power as commander in chief to issue this decree that feed slaves in certain areas.
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What is Article III Section 3
The prohibition of Corruption of blood as a punishment is in this section.
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What is First amendment free speech
Incorporated in Git Lo V New York
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What is the 27th Amendment
This Amendment is also known as "Madison's revenge"
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What is Article I section 9
According to this section The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
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What is Youngstown Sheet and Tube v Sawyer
"There are indications that the Constitution did not contemplate that the title Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy will constitute him also Commander in Chief of the country, its industries and its inhabitants"
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What is Originalism
A constitutional interpretation method famously used by Justice Scalia in which the meaning of the constitution is derived from the framers' intentions.
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What is Barron v Baltimore
The Bill of Rights in 1833 was ruled not to apply to state governments.
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What is the 24th Amendment
Harpers v Virginia Board of Elections prohibited poll taxes in state elections. This amendment did so for federal elections.
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What is the commerce clause
The third clause of Article I section 8
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What is the Unitary executive theory:
The idea that the President has unilateral control over the entire executive branch. Used by many presidents including Reagan, Clinton, and Obama, but most famously used by President George HW Bush.
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What is Marbury v Madison
"It is emphatically he province and duty of the Court to say what the law is"
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What is the exclusionary rule
This guideline established in Weeks v US was Incorporated in Mapp v Ohio
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What is the 26th Amendment
Overturned the decision in Mitchell v Oregon






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