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| It was the Supreme Court Case that upheld the doctrine of separate but equal. It said that public accommodations could be segregated by race, but are still equal. In the case, it required segregation of races on trolleys, schools, bathrooms, etc. As long as blacks had accommodations, it was okay. They were equal if they just had stuff to use. |
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| 52. Palko vs. Connecticut |
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| It was the Supreme Court case concerning the incorporation of the Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy. |
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| New Federalism is a political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government back to the states. The primary objective of New Federalism, unlike that of the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, is the restoration to the states of some of the autonomy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. |
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| 50. necessary and proper clause |
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The Necessary and Proper Clause (also known as the Elastic Clause) is the provision in Article One of the United States Constitution, section 8, clause 18:
The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. |
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| The police powers are the powers reserved to the state government to regulate the health, safety, and morals of its citizens. |
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