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Con Law
Term | Definition |
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En Banc Review | When all members of a circuit court hear a case |
Stare decisis | Precedent followed by the judges |
Remand | When a court, after making a decision, returns a case to a lower court for further legal proceedings |
Gibbons v. Ogden | Supreme Court struck down a New York law regulating waterways, saying that it interfered with congress's power under the commerce clause |
Lemon v. Kurtzman | Supreme Court outlined a famous 3-prong test for deciding whether a law violates the establishment clause |
Police Power | The power of the government to make all laws that are absolutely necessary to promote the common good of the people |
Bicameral Legislature | Two houses |
In New York Times v. United States, the federal government tried to stop the New York Times from publishing excerpts of this document _________. | The Pentagon Papers |
New York Times v. Sullivan | Origin of the "actual malice" standard for libel suits by public figures |
First Supreme Court Chief Justice | John Jay |
The _________ case is the origin of the imminent and lawless action test. | Brandenberg v. Ohio |
Steel Seizure Case | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co v. Sawyer, president had exceeded his powers |
First Female Supreme Court Justice | Sandra Day O'Connor |
The check that the legislature has over the other two branches of the federal government | The right to impeach |
Factions | Main evil that democratic governments have to deal with |
McCulloch v. Maryland | Supreme Court said it was "necessary and Proper" for congress to set up a national bank |
This body had to approve of all presidential nominations to the supreme court ___________. | The senate |
Pro Se | Without a lawyer |
Per curiam | The courts opinion without it being signed |
Enumerated Powers | Powers specifically granted to the government in the constitution |
Justice behind the clear and present danger test | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Author of the case declaring that the supreme court has the power of judicial review | John Marshall |
This set up the judiciary | Article III |
A request for the supreme court to hear a case | Certiorari |
In this case, the court declared that it had the power of judicial review | Marbury v. Madison |
Our current Chief Justice | Chief Justice Roberts |
The system of shared and divided governance between the federal government and the states | Federalism |
The executive has this check over the congressional legislation | Veto Power |
This case is the origin of the clear and present danger test | Schenck v. U.S. |
The full name of the law that set up inferior courts | The Judiciary Act of 1789 |
Ability of the courts to comment on the constitutionality of the other branches' actions and the laws that congress passes | Judicial Review |
Process through which some, but not all, of the guarantees of the Bill of Rights have been applied to state governments | Selective incorporation |