Government and Politics
Philosophy of the Declaration of Independence
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
100
This term refers to the formal political arrangements by which a land and its people are ruled
What is Government
100
This was the law passed by English parliament that gave the East India Company a monopoly to sell tea imported from Britain
What is the Tea Act
100
The Articles created this type of government as a response to England's unitary system
What is a confederation
100
These few words within the Constitution are emblematic of the most important concept of American Government, popular sovereignty
What is "We the people"
100
The Bill of Rights is made up of these, which contain specific guarantees against encroachment by the government
What are the first ten amendments
200
This is the system of rule that recognizes no formal limits on power but may nevertheless be restrained by the power of other social institutions
What is Authoritarian government
200
This is the economic theory that was designed to increase a nation's wealth through the development of commercial industry and a favorable balance of trade
What is mercantilism
200
This was the greatest problem inherent in the Articles of Confederation
What is the inability to tax
200
This is the way that power becomes parceled out among the branches of government
What is separation of powers
200
This concept, established in Barron v. Baltimore, meant that Americans were citizens of both their state and the country
What is dual citizenship
300
This principle of politics states that all political behavior is purposeful
What is rationality
300
This was the first official meeting of the colonies
What is the Stamp Act Congress
300
This event occurred when veterans of the Revolutionary War marched on the Springfield Arsenal and obstructed the courthouse to prevent foreclosures on their farms
What is Shays' Rebellion
300
This is the second article of the Constitution
What is the Executive Branch
300
This is the doctrine of which the Supreme Court includes amendments within the Bill of Rights to the 14th Amendment
What is the Incorporation Doctrine
400
This term has been defined by the struggle over "who gets what, when, and how"
What is politics
400
This concept, believed by John Locke, holds that governments may only exist by what right?
What is the consent of the governed
400
Proposed at the constitutional convention, this plan called for a national system based heavily on the European nation-state model, wherein the national government derives its powers from the people and not from the member states
What is the Virginia Plan
400
This system divided power between the state and national governments
What is federalism
400
This type of governmental restraint limits what the government can and cannot do
What are substantive restraints
500
This function of the American government created a system of laws allowing individuals to abide by a common set of principles
What is establishing justice
500
This section of the Declaration of Independence includes the ideas and ideals that would be the principles of the Declaration
What is the preamble
500
Unable to agree on a plan at the constitutional convention, the states concocted this agreement which combined both
What is the Great Compromise
500
This option in proposing an amendment to the Constitution has never be attempted
What is a 2/3 vote of state legislatures specifically requesting Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments
500
This standard by which the Court held the states forced the states to have to prove that their laws constituted a valid exercise of power to regulate the health, welfare, or public morals of citizens
What is substantive due process
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