(02.04 MC)What explains the tendency of new presidents to issue multiple executive orders early in their terms?

(03.01 MC)Which of the following is part of the original Bill of Rights?

(03.03 MC)© Pew Research Center Survey 2016What does the chart indicate about terrorism suspects’ Fourth Amendment rights?

(01.04 MC)Which example demonstrates how the Constitution addressed a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

(03.02 MC)McDonald v. Chicago (2010) primarily interpreted which Constitutional amendment?

(01.05 MC)Which governmental body can initiate impeachment proceedings to check elected officials?

(01.06 MC)Which Constitutional clause would prevent states from charging higher property taxes to non-residents?

(02.01 MC)”It has been much urged that a bank will give great convenience in the collection of taxes…yet the Constitution allows those (powers) which are ‘necessary,’ not those which are merely ‘convenient’…there is not one (power) which ingenuity may torture into convenience, in some instance or other, to someone of so long a list of enumerated powers, and reduce the whole to one power….Therefore it was that the Constitution restrained them to the necessary means; that is to say, to those means without which the grant of the power would be nugatory (useless).”—Thomas JeffersonWhich constitutional concept was Jefferson challenging in this excerpt?

(02.01 MC)”After a spirited debate, the House passed, by a 35 to 21 majority, the Excise Whiskey Tax. The measure levied a federal tax on domestic and imported alcohol, earmarked to offset a portion of the federal government’s recent assumption of state debts. Southern and western farmers, whose grain crop was a chief ingredient in whiskey, loudly protested the tax.”—From the U.S. House of Representatives, “History, Art & Archives”Which Congressional power is illustrated in this historical excerpt?

(03.05 MC)© Cornell Law School 2010What reasoning could explain why only three amendments were fully incorporated rather than all eight shown?