Amendments
This amendment was the last one ratified before the 27th Amendment
What is the Twenty-Sixth?
The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits "slavery [and] involuntary ___."
What is "servitude"?
The slogan under which Woodrow Wilson ran for reelection: "He kept us out of ___!"
What is war?
This Supreme Court Justice ruled against Charles Schenck in a famous case
Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
In the Schechter v. U.S. Supreme Court case, the Supreme Court said that "emergency" situations still didn't give U.S. Presidents this power
What is "to make laws/legislative"?
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Woodrow Wilson said that government was a "living thing, accountable to Darwin," and not to this scientist
The term "well regulated" in the Second Amendment means this
What is well trained?
This state was illegally formed during the North/South War
What is West Virginia?
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1919 said that speech that created a "___ and ___ danger" shouldn't be allowed
What is "clear and present"?
This position commonly represents the executive branch in state governments
What is the governor?
This is one type of exaction
What is a progressive tax, protective tariff, or inflation?
The Seventeenth Amendment changed how they were sent
Who are senators?
In this document, Lincoln told southerners who owned slaves that they could keep them if they returned to the union
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
State governments often include a justice of the ___.
What is "peace"?
He was the only U.S. President elected more than twice
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Why government officials prefer inflation to increasing taxes
What is "It keeps voters from getting angry at them and voting them out"?
This amendment gives the U.S. government to take property for "public use"
What is the Fifth?
With this kind of tax, the more a person makes, the higher percentage he pays.
What is "progressive"?
The Constitution gives Congress the power not to print money, but to "___ money."
What is "coin"?
One of the other two typical county government positions besides a coroner
What is a sheriff or tax collector/assessor?
A grand jury typically contains this many individuals
What is 16 to 23?
The Tenth Amendment says that the U.S. government may not do this
What is take any powers not specifically given to it in the Constitution?
The originally proposed Thirteenth Amendment would have done this
What is "kept slavery in the U.S. forever if the South returned to the union"?
Thomas Jefferson said, "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than ___ ___."
What are "standing armies"?
He was the U.S. President at the beginning of the Great Depression
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Economist/professor Walter Williams noted that up to this fraction of all taxes collected in the U.S. qualified as legal plunder
What is 2/3 to 3/4?