Test 2 Study Guide Questions

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

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

Where do most policies the national government adopts originate?

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

Define Suffrage 

Why was the United Nations created?

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

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

What are Enumerated Powers?

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

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

Who is the foremost diplomat after the president?

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

What is a Unitary Government? 

Who proposed the Bill of Rights?

What are the latest realms of foreign policy? 

What does the Supremacy Clause state?

When was the most recent Paris Agreement written? 

What is Federalism? 

What is the Supremacy Clause?

Where is power/authority concentrated in a Confederation?

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

What did SCOTUS decide in Boumediene v. Bush? 

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

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

What does the 13th Amendment state? 

Which branch has the power to declare war?

15th Amendment 

What is Libel? 

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

Define Civil liberties. 

Which SCOTUS case decided for marriage equality? 

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

What is the EU?

What is the balance of trade?

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

What was significant about Miranda v. Arizona?

What is Slander? 

What was decided in Schenck v. United States?

Which countries are included in the UN Security Council? 

What was the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

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

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

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

What is the rational basis test?

What are Implied Powers? 

What is the main concept of the 4th Amendment?

14th Amendment 

What is the balance of power?

Explain the Selective Incorporation Doctrine? 

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

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

What is the main concept of the 5th Amendment?