We the Principles
This idea states that people have rights that cannot be taken away.
What are natural rights?
This model emphasizes broad participation by citizens.
What is participatory democracy?
This concept refers to groups of citizens with shared interests that may conflict with others.
What are factions?
This rebellion exposed the weakness of the Articles due to lack of a national military.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This system divides power between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This principle means government gets its power from the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
This model focuses on group competition and interest groups influencing policy.
What is pluralist democracy?
Name the group supported a strong national government and ratification of the Constitution and the group that feared a strong central government and wanted more state power.
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Strong national government: Federalists
Strong state government: Anti-Federalists
This compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Powers specifically listed in the Constitution are known as these.
What are enumerated powers?
This founding document outlines natural rights, list grievances against the crown to justify revolution, and envision what a government should look like.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This model argues that a small group of elites actually holds power.
What is elite democracy?
This addition to the Constitution was promised to protect individual liberties and secure ratification.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This system was created to elect the president indirectly.
What is the Electoral College?
This clause allows Congress to make laws necessary to carry out its powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This idea suggests people give up some freedoms in exchange for order and protection.
What is the social contract?
This foundational document creates a federal government structure based on the will of the people (popular sovereignty) and outlines separation of powers and checks and balances.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature with proportional and equal representation.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
A type of federalism where the belief is that the state and national governments are supreme within their own sphere of influence
What is dual Federalism AKA "Layered Cake Federalism?"
This amendment reserves powers not given to the national government to the states.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This system ensures government power is restricted through separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism.
What is limited government?
This debate between two foundational texts highlights tensions between large vs. small republics. (Name two required documents)
What are Federalist No. 10 and Brutus No. 1?
This Anti-Federalist paper warned that a large republic threatens liberty.
What is Brutus No. 1?
This clause requires states to extend same privileges and immunities to all citizens (even of other states).
What is the Privileges and Immunities Clause?
This clause establishes that federal law is superior to state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?