Civil right act 1957 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

WGU C963 American Politics and the U.S. Constitution. All Sections covered, Accurate, graded A+ Civil rights - -The basic right to be free from unequal treatment, are based on certain protected characteristics, such as race, gender, and disability, and in settings such as employment, education, housing, and access to public facilities. If you believe that the government is supposed to be doing something, then it is a right. Rights are prescriptions of government power. equality of tr...

Study guide civil rights Questions with correct Answers 2023 Lemon Grove Incident 1930 Mexican children were not allowed into the school by Jerome T. Green, the principal of the Lemon Grove Grammar School. Acting under instructions from the school trustees, he would allow all students but Mexican and Mexican American students to enter the school. Instead he sent the desegregated students to an old building that would hold the student, however their parents refused to allow them to be schooled ...

AP GOPO Review Final Exam Spring 2023 Anti-Federalist Opponents of the Constitution who desired a federal government more like the one under the Articles of Confederation. They wanted a Bill of Rights added before ratifying the U.S. Constitution Articles of Confederation The first plan of government for the colonies after the American Revolution which redefined the former colonies as states Bill of Rights The first 10 Amendments added to the Constitution in 1791 Checks and Balances a s...

Brown v. Board of Education - Answer 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. McCulloch v. Maryland - Answer 1819 - The Supreme Court ruled that congress had the authority to establish a federal bank that could not be taxed by states. Established that congress could have powers not explicitly described in the constitution. Gibbons v. Ogden - Answer 1824 - "The...

Nudity is synonymous with obscenity. - correct answer False A person who "panders" may be convicted for commercial exploitation of sexual material even though the material is not obscene. - correct answer True Adult-oriented pay-cable services such as the Playboy Channel are prohibited from operating between 6a.m. and 10p.m. - correct answer False Lower courts have interpreted the US Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas decision as barring prosecutions for the distribution of obscene ma...

AP GOPO Review Final Exam Spring 2023 Anti-Federalist Opponents of the Constitution who desired a federal government more like the one under the Articles of Confederation. They wanted a Bill of Rights added before ratifying the U.S. Constitution Articles of Confederation The first plan of government for the colonies after the American Revolution which redefined the former colonies as states Bill of Rights The first 10 Amendments added to the Constitution in 1791 Checks and Balances a s...

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Federalism -ANSWER A system in which the power to govern is shared between national and state governments Dual / Layer Cake Federalism -ANSWER A system in which national and state governments are competitors with distinct powers. This system was prominent in the US from the during the 19th century until 1937. Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism -ANSWER A system in which national and state government have shared or overlapping powers. FDR's New Deal legislation established this system in ...

GVPT 200 Midterm 1 Latest 2023 Graded A State A territory that has some sort of central government. States are sovereign, meaning the central government can do/ make laws as they please in the boundaries of those states. Ex: United States, India, Pakistan. Nation A group of people that share some sort of common history, ethnicity; Ex. United States, India, Germany; lots of people from different backgrounds. Nation-State The idea that a group of people who have a common identity, or share a sen...

"Let one hundred flowers bloom" - ANSWER-Chairman Mao Zedong's "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend". This slogan was used during the period of approximately six weeks in the summer of 1957 when the Chinese intelligentsia were invited to criticize the political system then obtaining in Communist China. It is sometimes suggested that the initiative was a deliberate attempt to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regi...