Question
Louis Brandeis birthed the metaphor that these things are “laboratories of democracy” in his dissent in a case brought by unlicensed ice vendor Ernest Liebmann. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these things responsible for “novel social and economic experiments” according to Brandeis. Charles R. Van Hise articulated an “idea” named for one of these things that influenced Robert La Follette’s Progressivism.
ANSWER: states (Van Hise’s “Wisconsin Idea” sought to spread the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s benefits to the entire state.)
[10e] The idea that states are “laboratories of democracy” draws from this constitutional amendment that lets states govern with “all powers not delegated to the United States.”
ANSWER: Tenth Amendment
[10m] This legal theory tests the bounds of states being “laboratories of democracy” by asserting their unchecked right to operate federal elections. The Supreme Court rejected North Carolina Republicans’ use of this legal theory in Moore v. Harper.
ANSWER: independent state legislature theory [or independent legislature theory or ISL theory]
<GP, American History>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 14% | 43% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 40% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 0% | 75% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 67% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 33% | 17% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 0% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 25% | 75% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 6.00 | 20% | 20% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
Data
| Chicago A | Notre Dame | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Illinois Blue | Illinois Orange | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue B | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | SIUE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |