Test 2 Study Guide Questions

What was significant about Miranda v. Arizona?

What is forbidden in the Title IX of the Education Act of 1972?

What was decided in the SCOTUS case of -New York Times v. Sullivan? 

What is the difference between an international organization and a regional organization? Give one example of each. 

Who proposed the Bill of Rights?

What is the main concept of the 5th Amendment?

How the influence of the national government can wield over state governments through withholding of federal funds?

Which Justice wrote the opinion in Brown v. Board of Education? 

What is Diplomacy? Is it the same as Foreign Policy? 

What is the difference in focus of the Secretary of State vs. Secretary of Defense?

Which Congress wrote and proposed the “Bill of Rights”? 

What is Federalism? 

What is the Supremacy Clause?

What are Enumerated Powers?

What are some powers of the state granted by the Constitution?

What is a Unitary Government? 

Which government has the power to enter treaties, coin money, regulate commerce?

Where do most policies the national government adopts originate?

What are the latest realms of foreign policy? 

What principle was decided in the SCOTUS case of Plessy v. Ferguson?

What was a consequence of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

What are the 5 protections stated in the 1st Amendment (5 protections)?

What was decided in the SCOTUS case of Near v. Minnesota? What was the legal concept known as?

What is Slander? 

Who is the foremost diplomat after the president?

Which SCOTUS case decided for marriage equality? 

14th Amendment 

What is the balance of trade?

What is the rational basis test?

Explain the Selective Incorporation Doctrine? 

What does the Supremacy Clause state?

What are the 3 Levels of Scrutiny according to the textbook?

What is the main concept of the 4th Amendment?

Which countries are included in the UN Security Council? 

Define Suffrage 

What was decided in Schenck v. United States?

What did SCOTUS decide in Boumediene v. Bush? 

15th Amendment 

What was the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

What is required to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990?

Why was the United Nations created?

Which branch has the power to declare war?

What is the EU?

What did the War Powers Resolution clarify as far as presidential power regarding military conflict? 

Give an example of the three realms of foreign policy: military economic diplomacy?

What were the four main arguments Chief Justice Marshall argued in Mc Culloch v. Maryland? 

Define Civil liberties. 

When was the most recent Paris Agreement written? 

What is the balance of power?

What is Libel? 

Where is power/authority concentrated in a Confederation?

What are Implied Powers? 

What does the 13th Amendment state?