The Documents
This document discusses the dangers and effects of factions.
Federalist 10
The type of democracy in which every person fully participates in every aspect of government.
Participatory democracy
The Constitution was developed to prevent this from ever happening again.
Tyranny/tyrannical leadership
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary"
Federalist 51
The framers identified a limited list of _____ _____, Section 8, which include the powers to tax, borrow, money, raise an army, create a postal system, address piracy on the seas, define the immigration and naturalization process, and a few others. (referencing Congress)
Enumerated powers
This document listed the 27 grievances of the colonists.
Declaration of Independence
The type of government where a small group of individuals are in power, usually people who are wealthy.
Elite democracy
Federalist 51 suggested that this type of legislature would make the legislative branch more equal in power to the other two branches as it would make the legislative process slower.
Bicameral
"If respect is to be paid to the opinion of the greatest and wisest men who have ever thought or wrote on the science of government, we shall be constrained to conclude, that a free republic cannot succeed over a country of such immense extent, containing such a number of inhabitants, and these increasing in such rapid progression as that of the whole United States."
Brutus 1
The debate about adding a _____ __ _____, overlapped the series of ratifying conventions that occurred throughout 1787-1790. With the Federalists' efforts and assurances that amendments protecting personal rights would be added, the reluctant states ratified and joined the union.
Bill of Rights
Brutus 1
The type of democracy where power is spread across several different groups and facets of government.
Pluralist democracy
This clause, also known as the elastic clause, allows Congress to use whatever means it has to in order to carry out it's 17 other duties.
Necessary and proper clause
"...the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority."
Federalist 10
In Western Massachusetts in 1786, a large group of impovershied farmers, including many revolutionary war veterans, lost their farms to mortgage foreclosures and their failure to pay higher than average state taxes. They organized, disrupted government, and obstructed court claims.
Shay's Rebellion
This document affirms the purpose of checks and balances.
Federalist 51
The federalists believed that a _____ would best serve the size and scope of the United States because it provided stability against the horrors of factions.
Republic
McCulloch v. Maryland relied on this constitutional clause to decide that the state of Maryland could not tax the national bank.
Supremacy clause
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Declaration of Independence
The law covered intelligence gathering and sharing by executive branch agencies, points of criminal procedure, and border protection. It allowed the government to share information about significant suspects, and it widened authority on tapping suspects' phones.
PATRIOT Act
This document laid out the original government of the United States which established the voting process and representation for each state.
Articles of Confederation
Name one enlightenment philosopher that influenced the American founders and early political thinkers.
Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jaques-Rousseau, Montesquieu
Article 5 of the Constitution outlines this process.
The amendment process
"...in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
BE SPECIFIC!
The preamble of the Constitution
Grants with particular congressional guidelines or requirements are known as _____ _____.
_____ _____, which refers to federal money given to states for broadly defined reasons, differ from _____ ____ in that they offer larger sums of money to the states without the strings of _____ _____.
You should have terms, each with two words.
Categorical grants, block grants.