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What is the "exclusionary rule"?
Evidence obtained without a search warrant or a wrongfully obtained search
warrant cannot be used
Common Law
A legal system based on custom and court rulings. The judge is responsible for
interpreting and applying the law, while the jury is responsible for
determining the facts. Judges are not always required to accept a jury's
decision, and appellate courts are not allowed to change a jury's
determination of facts.
Establishment Clause
Part of the First Amendment stating that "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion."
The Equal Protection Clause in the US Constitution
prevents arbitrary discrimination in the laws that the government passes
minimal effects theory
, A person reads information and shares it with others. Some argue that the
media have little effect on citizens and voters.
Virginia Plan
James Madison
Three Branches of government
Two-chamber in a legislative
Bicameral legislature:
House: elected by the people
Senate: appointed by the legislature
Votes based on population
Could tax, regulate trade, veto down state laws, create an army
The Great Compromises
1. combined the two ideas from the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan.
2. The 3/5 slavery ruling
3. Slave owners could reclaim their slaves in states where they had fled.
4. Slaves could only be freed if they were born in the US and was over the age
of 28
Articles of Confederation with a Congress
1. representation based on the population
2. the the weak national government and a strong states
Federalists
supporters of the Constitution
Anti-Federalists
people who opposed the Constitution
Federalist Paper #10
Written by James Madison to convince people to support the ratification of
the constitution. Argued that factions were inevitable but were best
controlled by a large republic that employed a Federalist structure. Argued
that competition among factions would limit their negative impacts.
Federalist Paper # 51