Ideals and types of democracy
The U.S. government is based partly on the idea that all people have certain kinds of these that cannot be taken away.
What are natural rights?
Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the Constitution and wanted more power reserved to these governments.
What are state governments?
Some examples of this mechanism of government include the House ability to impeach federal judges, and the president. Additionally, the Senate holds the impeachment trial.
What are checks and balances?
The system of government in the United States in which power is shared between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
This explains how constitutional provisions of separation of powers and checks and balances control potential abuses by majorities.
What is Federalist 51?
Separation of powers, Checks and balances, Federalism, and Republicanism all play a role in this main ideal of the Founders.
What is limited government?
The Great (Connecticut) Compromise, created a ___________ system of congressional representation with the House of Representatives based on each state’s population and the Senate representing each state equally.
What is bicameral?
In order to amend the Constitution, you need this:
What is a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and three-fourths of the state legislatures?
Articles 1, 2, and 3 outline the three branches of government. This is the term for that setup.
What is separation of powers?
Where it is argued that a system of republican representation helps to limit the excesses of factionalism.
What is Federalist 10?
It's an agreement that says the government promises to protect the natural rights of the people.
What is the social contract?
Madison’s arguments in Federalist No. 10 focused on the superiority of a large republic in controlling the “mischiefs of __________"
What is faction?
DAILY DOUBLE
You may know him from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, or for your generation, as John Wick.
This type of power is held by only one level of government and includes enumerated powers that are written in the Constitution, and implied powers that are not specifically written in the Constitution but are inferred from the Necessary and Proper Clause.
What is exclusive power?
The debates between Federalists and Anti-Federalists were primarily about this.
What is the scope of power of the central government?
The framers of the Constitution set out to establish this form of government.
What is a representative republic?
Brutus writes concerning the proposed Constitution. He cites these two clauses to make his case against it.
What are the Supremacy clause and the Necessary and Proper clause?
These procedures result in the removal of the President from office.
What is the House votes for impeachment, and the Senate conducts a trial and reaches a guilty verdict?
2 responses: The ___________ gives the national government the power to regulate __________________________, but Supreme Court interpretations can influence the extent of this power.
What is the commerce clause? What is interstate commerce?
The division of government authority across political institutions is a fundamental element of this document.
What is the Constitution?
One involves broad participation, another group-based activism, and the last deals mainly with limited participation in politics and civil society. These are the three types of democracy.
What are participatory, pluralist, and elite?
A formula for calculating a state’s enslaved population for the purposes of representation was enacted in the Constitution.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
“We are unanimously of opinion, that the law passed by the legislature of Maryland, imposing a tax on the Bank of the United States, is unconstitutional and void…This is a tax on the operation of an instrument employed by the government of the Union to carry its powers into execution. Such a tax must be unconstitutional…” is the bulk of the argument in this case.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
The allocation of powers between national and state governments creates multiple access points for stakeholders and institutions to influence this.
What is public policy?
In this document, it is argued that small governments are best for stable governments.
What is Brutus No. 1?