Powers
States: If the powers are not given to the Federal Government and not prohibited by law, they are reserved for the states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Has boundaries.
What is Both?
A written Document that details Powers and structure of the Government.
What is a Constitution?
The idea that government gets its power from the people.
What is Democracy?
Type of Government the United States of America is.
Be Specific!
What is a Republic/Representative Democracy.?
Powers given by the Necessary and Proper Clause.
What are Implied Powers?
Has Citizens.
What is Both?
Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches of Government.
What are Separation of Powers?
Our Founding Fathers', travels through the history of other country's governments led them here.
What is Ancient Athens, Greece?
What the D.C. stands for in Washington D.C.
What is District of Columbia?
Powers shared between the Federal and State Governments.
What are Concurrent Powers?
Has to answer to a higher government.
What is a State?
No one is above the law, not the government, not even the president.
What is Rule of Law?
The number of councilmen, an Athenian Territory had, depended on "IT" as does the number of representatives a state, in the U.S. has.
What is Population?
The 2 ways citizens select their candidate to run for their party.
What are a Caucus and a Primary Election?
Powers clearly stated, in the Constitution, as those afforded to the Federal Government.
What are Expressed Powers?
It's power, government and laws trump all others.
What is a Sovereign State?
Citizens give the government permission to govern them.
What is Consent of the governed?
When our Founding Fathers were writing the Constitution, they took ideas from these two established governments.
What are the Native Americans and the British Governments?
Meets in Washington D.C. in December to cast their votes for President.
What is the Electoral College?
Daily Double!
The branch of government that has the power to declare war.
Has Reserved Powers.
What is a State?
Small and unpopular groups also have rights regardless of what the majority believes.
What are Minority Rights?
The idea of Social Contract was taken from these two philosophers.
Who are Thomas Hobbes and John Locke?
Where you find the qualifications to run for president of the United States.
What is Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution?