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judicial branch
interprets the law
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legislative branch
makes the laws
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how many house of representatives
435
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power structure of Senate
- president pro tempore
- majority leader
- majority whip
- minority leader
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power structure of House of Representatives
- speaker of house
- majority and minority whip
- majority and minority leader
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standing committee
has greatest amount of power in Congress
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sociological law
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Society should shape the law instead of law shaping society
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English Common Law
- Judges are bound by precedent
- Trial by jury
- William Blackstone, Commentaries on the law of England
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which president initiated the amendment allowing for an income tax?
Taft
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how many justices in supreme court
9
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four solutions to national debt
- give president greater control over budget, including limiting spending
- get rid of PACS
- Adopt modern system of accounting
- Adopt a flat tax
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Marbury v. Madison
- establishes judicial review
- court can rule something unconstitutional
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McCulloch v. Maryland
- power to tax is the power to destroy
- federal is supreme over the state
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Brown v. board of education
- ends segregation
- little girl wanted to go white school
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plessy v. Ferguson
accepts segregation
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Roe v. Wade
- Amendment 14 right to privacy
- abortion
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Engle v. vitale
cannot pray in school as a teacher
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everson v. board of education
everson filed suit to reimburse parents for school bus
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Lemon v. Kurtzman
the state reimburses parochial schools for expenses associated with educating students
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Miller v. California
Miller convicted for mailing adult books
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Texas v. Johnson
conviction for burning flag was overturned when supreme court ruled texas law unconstitutional
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Miranda v. Arizona
no prior notifications of rights under fifth amendment during police interrogation
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John Marshall
U.S. gives Europe billions of dollars to help Europe after WWI
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Earl Warren
Courts have denied natural law ad have become more more liberal especially under Chief Justice Earl Warren
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William Blackstone
- Commentaries on the law of England
- law is based on the absolute Word of God
- natural law given to all men to help them know right from wrong
- basis of law in America until the 1900's
- English Common Law spreads to England's colonists
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