The Colonial Period
The Dec. of Ind.
The U.S. Const.
Powers
Terms
100
Jamestown.
What is the name of the first permanent colony in America?
100
July 4, 1776.
What is the date America adopted the Declaration of Independence?
100
American laws ratified as the first ten amendments that were influenced by the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
The powers delegated to the National Government in so many words - spelled out, expressly, in the Constitution such as the power to lay and collect taxes, to coin money, to regulate foreign and interstate commerce, to raise and maintain armed forces, to declare war, to fix standards of weights and measures, and to grant patents and copyrights.
What are the expressed or enumerated powers?
100
A philosophy of government in which the power resides in the people.
What is democracy?
200
A document that limited the power of the king.
What is the Magna Carta?
200
Great Britain.
From whom did America declare independence?
200
Men who supported the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
200
Powers that are not expressly stated in the Constitution, but they are reasonably suggested by the expressed powers such as the regulation of labor - management relations, the building of hydroelectric dams, and the building of the interstate system.
What are the implied powers?
200
The philosophy of government that creates three levels of government: national, state, and local.
What is federalism?
300
A charter that extended the rights of Englishmen to the colonists.
What is the Virginia Company of London?
300
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
What are the names of the city and state where the Declaration of Independence was adopted?
300
Ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and secure the blessings of liberty.
What are the three purposes for the federal government as outlined in the Preamble?
300
The powers to regulate immigration, to acquire territory, to grant diplomatic recognition to other states, and to protect the nation against rebellion or other attempts to overthrow the government by force or violence.
What are inherent powers?
300
A set of basic beliefs about life, culture, and government.
What is ideology?
400
Protection of private property, protection against martial law, and guarantee of trial by jury.
What are three components to the English Bill of Rights?
400
The forefather recognized as the writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
3/4 vote of the state legislatures and 3/4 of the states must have individual constitutional conventions.
What are the two ways that an amendment to the Constitution can be ratified?
400
Those powers, under the 10th Amendment, not granted to the federal government, nor denied to the states by the Constitution are reserved to the states or the people; such as the power to establish public schools.
What are the reserved powers?
400
Highlight single issues and provide a forum for minority views.
What are the purposes of third parties?
500
1607.
What is the year that the first permanent settlement in America was established?
500
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." This quote best exemplifies which fundamental concept of American democrary?
What are Natural Rights?
500
Congress proposes an amendment and its ratification occurs in the state legislatures.
How is the amendement process an example of federalism?
500
This enables Congress to enact legislation to supersede state authority and preempt state regulations.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
500
"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." This quote best represents which principle of government?
What is consent of the governed?
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