Fed. No. 10 & 51
Written to support the ratification of this document.
What is the Constitution?
The Declaration was primarily inspired by this philosopher.
Who is John Locke?
The Declaration was primarily sponsored by this philosopher.
Who is John Locke?
Article I of the Constitution established this branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
What is segregation?
The Anti-Federalist view regarding the size of the central government was represented in this foundational document.
What is Brutus No. 1?
Fed. No. 70 argued that factions are good in the legislature, but bad here.
What is the executive?
The "unalienable rights" listed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration?
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
The Constitution gives the power to pardon to this branch of government.
What is the executive?
In his letter, MLK supported this type of protest.
"Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests..." was written by this author.
Who is James Madison?
In order to ensure the judiciary's independence from the other branches, the Federalists argued for this term length for justices on the Supreme Court.
What is lifetime tenure?
"The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other..." This quote represents this form of government.
What is a confederation?
This clause in Article IV of the Constitution makes your driver's license valid in other states.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
This clause in Article IV stipulates that the citizens of each state shall enjoy the same rights in the other states.
What is the Privileges and Immunities Clause?
"In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government, which to a certain extent is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty..." This quote advocates for this principal of gov't.
What is the separation of powers?
"No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid." Alexander Hamilton argues for this judicial power.
What is judicial review?
The Articles of Confederation failed because the federal government lacked the power to raise a military and suppress this uprising.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Article I of the Constitution gives Congress powers "necessary and proper" to carry out the law. This clause is sometimes known as this.
What is the "Elastic" Clause?
The Constitution requires all revenue bills to originate here.
What is the House of Representatives?
"But it is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self- defense. In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature into different branches..." This term advocates for this type legislature.
What is bicameral?
"When a resolution too is once taken, the opposition must be at an end. That resolution is a law, and resistance to it punishable." Here, Hamilton argues for this structure in the executive.
What is a single executive?
The federal government's inability to tax left the country under the Articles of Confederation with this problem.
What is war debt?
Article V of the Constitution requires this number of states to ratify an amendment.
What is 3/4?
Congress's ability to coin money, borrow money, and declare war are examples of this form of power.
What are enumerated powers?