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| relations between two states, especially in terms of commerce. According to the interstate commerce clause of the constitution, the federal government can regulate interstate and foreign commerce. Originally, the federal government used this power to facilitate commerce, not regulate; would eventually start regulating after the Great Depression. |
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| what occurs within a state, especially in terms of commerce. Under the interstate commerce clause of the constitution, the federal government is limited to interstate commerce, and thus cannot interfere with intrastate commerce. Basically, the state has control over its own commerce except for what crosses over into other states. |
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| A type of capitalism where the government places no restrictions on economy. While America has one of the least restrictive capitalist economies, it is still not a laissez-faire in the purest sense. Generally, fiscal conservatives want this type of capitalism. |
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| The Supreme Court struck down the Texas statute criminalizing homosexual sex,thus extending the right to privacy to gays. Said you could not criminalize private sexual behavior. Reversed Bowers v. Hardwick |
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| For government to pass legislation involving religion, the law must pass three requirements: government involvement must have a secular purpose, the effect of the law is enither to advance nor inhibit religion, and it does not entangle government and religious institutions in each other's affairs (must keep the two clean and separate) |
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| the legal privilege by which the American federal, state, and tribal governments cannot be sued |
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| an oral statement, made in “reckless disregard of the truth,” which is considered damaging to the victim because it is “malicious, scandalous, and defamatory” |
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| the division of governmental power among several institutions that must cooperate in decision making i.e. between the legislative, executive and judicial branches |
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| an early and influential women's rights convention, the first to be organized by women in the Western world, in Seneca Falls, New York, 1848 |
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| the process by which different protections in the Bill of Rights were incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment, thus guaranteeing citizens protection from state as well as national governments |
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