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3. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
Passed in 1964, this act was intended to give federal reinforcement to the 14th Amendment.

4. TINKER V. DES MOINES
SCOTUS selectively incorporated the 1st Amendment with a ruling on symbolic speech in public schools.

5. DEFICIT SPENDING
Term for Congress spending money raised by borrowing rather than taxation.

6. RULES COMMITTEE
Perhaps the most powerful committee in Congress because of its power over scheduling, debating and amending of bills.

7. VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965
Designed as an anti-discrimination measure, it allowed the federal government to take control of elections where voter registration was less than fifty percent.

8. SCHENCK V. U.S.
DAILY DOUBLE
Hamilton’s fears were confirmed when SCOTUS ruled that there was an exception to free speech when it created “a clear and present danger.”

9. A type of federal expenditure that IS NOT required.
DISCRETIONARY SPENDING
A type of federal expenditure that IS NOT required.

10. REFUSE TO SPEND MONEY APPROPRIATED BY CONGRESS
The Budget Impoundment Act restricted the President’s ability to do this…

11. MOTOR VOTER ACT
Although it required states to offer voter registration services at motor vehicle offices, turnout did not increase.

12. ROE V. WADE
In part, The Court based its ruling in this case on the precedent set in Griswold v. Connecticut where it ruled that while privacy is not explicitly stated in the Constitution, it “emanates” from it.

13. THE FEDERAL RESERVE
The setting of monetary policy is typically done by this independent regulatory commission.

14. DISCHARGE PETITION

15. JOHN MCCAIN & RUSS FEINGOLD
Nicknamed for these two Senate sponsors, the Bi-Partisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 banned corporations from using their money to run ads prior to federal elections-until that part was struck down by the Supreme Court.

16. #78
The doctrine of judicial review first exercised by the Court in Marbury v. Madison was supported by Al Hamilton in this Federalist Paper.

17. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET
Executive office responsible for preparing that branch’s budget.

18. BROWN V. BOARD
In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King might have been citing this SCOTUS ruling when he stated African Americans suffered from a sense of inferiority due to segregation.

19. AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
Essentially an unfunded mandate, it required states to install handicap ramps in all public buildings without federal funding.

20. WISCONSIN V. YODER
The basis of the Engel ruling is that school-led prayer was a sin-against the Constitution, and in this case, compulsory attendance could be a sin against religious freedom.

21. POWER TO INITIATE TAX LEGISLATION
This exclusive power of the House is embodied in its Ways & Means committee.

22. SOPHOMORE SURGE; FRANKING PRIVILEGE; NAME RECOGNITION; PORK BARRELING
Three advantages that an incumbent member of Congress might have when running for reelection.

23. TERMINAL
JEOPARDY

24. DEAD
MAN’S PARTY

25. PARTY CONVENTIONS
One of the major impacts of the direct primary system was a decrease in the importance of this event which kicks off the general election cycle of Presidential races.