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- Any law or action that prevents some group of persons from exercising a fundamental right will be subject to the ____ standard for determining whether the equal protection clause has been violated.
- A(n) ____ punishes individuals for committing an act that was legal when it was committed but that has since become a crime.
- The transfer of powers to local authorities by a central government is called
- In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), Allan Bakke claimed that he was a victim of
- The constitutional basis for the ____ powers of the national government is found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, often called the necessary and proper clause.
- Powers that are not delegated to the national government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the states, are
- Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution enumerates twenty-seven powers that Congress may exercise. Two of these ____ powers are the power to coin money and the power to regulate interstate commerce.
- ___ is a system of shared sovereignty between two levels of government—one national and one subnational—occupying the same geographic region.
- A law based on a suspect classification is subject to ____ scrutiny by the courts.
- In ____, the Supreme Court held that the right to privacy is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy, subject to certain regulations.
- Which of the following countries has a unitary system of government?
- The three-part test used by the Supreme Court to determine whether government aid to parochial schools is constitutional is called the ____ test.
- An example of a concurrent power is the power to ____
- The ____ Amendment granted freedom to the slaves.
- For the constitutional framers, the appeal of federalism was that it retained state powers and local traditions while establishing a strong national government capable of handling common problems, such as
- The decision of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade was based on the right of
- Which of the following countries has a federal system?
- The ____ require(s) that any illegally obtained evidence not be admissible in court.
- The regulation of immigration by the national government is an example of its ____ powers.
- Discrimination in public places of accommodation and discrimination in employment were outlawed by the