Ch 1 Principles of Gov
The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.
What is Government?
A system of government in which public policies are made by officials selected by the voters and held accountable in periodic elections.
What is a representative government?
Basic principle of American system of government that the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are divided among three independent and coequal branches of government.
What is the separation of powers?
A system of government in which a written constitution divides the power between a central, or national, government and several regional, or state, governments.
What is Federalism?
Who were James Madison and Alexander Hamilton?
Population, Territory, Sovereignty, and Government are all characteristics.
What is a State?
Basic principle of the American system of government which asserts that the people are the source of any and all governmental power, and government can exist only with the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
System of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the others.
What are checks and balances?
The delegated powers of the National Government that are spelled out, expressly, in the Constitution; also called the "enumerated powers".
What are expressed powers?
Anti-Federalists.
Who were Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams?
A form of government in which the supreme authority rests with the people.
What is a democracy?
Established a "firm league of friendship" among the States, ultimately failed because of its weaknesses.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Popular Sovereignty, Limited Government, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Judicial Review, and Federalism.
What are the Basic Principles of the Constitution?
Powers the Constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community.
What are the inherent powers?
Thomas Jefferson, an Anti-Federalist, was persuaded to ratify the Constitution by this man who shared his home state, but was a Federalist.
Who is George Washington?
What are Responsibilities of Citizenship?
An agreement at the Constitutional Convention to count slave as three-fifths of a person when determining the population of a State.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action.
What is judicial review?
Levy and collect taxes, Borrow money, Establish courts, Define crimes and set punishments, Set environmental and health standards, Claim private property for public use are all examples.
What are concurrent powers?
He was elected Vice President on April 6, 1789.
Majority rule, minority rights, compromise, individual freedom, equality, and individual worth.
What are basic concepts of Democracy?
The 2 groups who vigorously debated the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists?
Amendments are proposed by Congress or a National Convention and then ratified by State Legislatures or conventions.
What is the Formal Amendment Process?
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Supreme Court's decision in Marbury v. Madison in 1803 established this.
What is Judicial Review?