Foundations of Government
To make and enforce public laws are the purposes of this.
What is government?
The Declaration of Independence states that "All men are created equal . . . and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" including these.
What are Life, liberty, & the pursuit of property?
This group wanted a strong central government, while this one wanted a weak one.
What are Federalists & anti-federalists?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution is also known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This kind of government is composed of one central government and several local units of government where powers are divided and the two can never join
What is a federal government?
Leaders of this cannot be held responsible for their actions OR their policies.
What is a dictatorship?
Thomas Jefferson was the chief architect and writer of this.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
At first, the purpose of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 was not to create the Constitution, instead it was to revise these.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Constitutional clause is is purposefully vague to allow Congress to stretch to cover many situations.
What is the Necessary & Proper (or "Elastic") Clause?
The government collecting taxes is an example of this.
What is an expressed (or enumerated) power?
Illinois does not fit the criteria of a State because it lacks this.
What is sovereignty? (others include territory, population, & government)
This is an alliance of independent states where a central government handles only what member states assign to it.
What is a confederate government?
This forbid Congress from taxing imports of goods by states, and left the slave trade in place until 1808.
What is the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
This protects the personal freedoms and guarantees of all citizens in the United States.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A government enforcing their borders is an example of this.
What is an inherent power?
What is the social contract theory?
Many farmers and merchants after credit vanished, the economy became unstable, and there was rioting in banks in a rebellion called this.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This gave the United States a bicameral government where all states are equally represented in the Senate and where the House of Representatives are represented based on population.
What is the Great Compromise (or the Connecticut Compromise)?
This states that the Constitution is the “Supreme Law of the land."
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This is when the powers of government are purposely separated between different branches of government.
What is the separation of powers?
Each branch of government having the ability to check the actions of the other branches in order to maintain balance is called this.
What are "checks and balances?"
This declared that the colonies would dissolve all ties with Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This controversial event led the country to agree that the Articles of Confederation needed to be reformed.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The Supreme Court ruling a law unconstitutional is an example of this.
What is Judicial Review?
These are the five concepts of democracy.
What are the worth of the individual, equality, compromise, majority rule but minority rights, & individual freedom?