Free Elections - Correct Answer Express opinions on issues
Common Law - Correct Answer Presidency and customs
4th Amendment - Correct Answer Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures
Articles of Confederation - Correct Answer the first constitution of the United States
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Common Law - Correct Answer Presidency and customs
4th Amendment - Correct Answer Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures
Articles of Confederation - Correct Answer the first constitution of the United States
Popular Sovereignty - Correct Answer Rule by the people
Boston Tea Party - Correct Answer protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped
british tea into boston harbor
concurrent jurisdiction - Correct Answer authority for both state and federal courts to hear and decide
cases
Judicial Review - Correct Answer Appeal (appeal from a lower court to a higher one)
writ of habeas corpus - Correct Answer A court order requiring jailers to explain to a judge why they are
holding a prisoner in custody.
Riders - Correct Answer Amendments on matters unrelated to a bill that are added to an important bill
so that they will "ride" to passage through the Congress. When a bill has many riders, it is called a
Christmas-tree bill. Politicians add riders for the benefit of their state.
Cloture - Correct Answer ends a filibuster
Executive Order - Correct Answer A rule issued by the president
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