Articles and Amendments
Creates the Legislative Branch and grants Congress various enumerated powers and the ability to pass laws "necessary and proper" to carry out those powers
Article 1
A theory of American democracy contending that an upper-class elite holds the power and makes policy, regardless of the formal governmental organization.
Elitism
An important result of American individualism has been a clear tendency to prefer this type of economic policy where there is an abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
Laissez-Faire
uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. Armed bands forced the closing of several courts to prevent execution of foreclosures and debt processes.
Shay's Rebellion
What document says - There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
Fed 10
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.
22nd Amendment
Opponents of the US Constitution at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption.
Anti-Federalists
Groups that have a narrow interest on which their members tend to take an uncompromising stance.
Single-Issue Groups
DOUBLE JEOPARDY The idea that certain restrictions should be placed on government to protect the natural rights of citizens
Limited Government
What are two failures of the Articles of Confederation?
No executive, no courts, no power to tax, Shays Rebellion, no national currency, one vote per state,
summarizes how the United States Constitution can be changed or amended from its original wording.
Article 5
The process of determining the leaders we select and the policies they pursue.
Politics
What are 3 functions that national governments throughout the world perform:
Maintain a national defense
Provide public goods and services
Preserve order
Socialize the young
Collect Taxes
A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.
Republic
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the __________
Dec of Independence
Consent of the Governed
The amendment specifically prohibits federal courts from hearing cases in which a state is sued by an individual from another state or another country.
11th Amendment
Rights inherent in human beings, not dependent on governments, which include life, liberty, and property.
Natural Rights
A theory of American democracy emphasizing that the policymaking process is very open to the participation of all groups with shared interests, with no single group usually dominating.
Pluralism
This compromise provided for a bicameral federal legislature that used a dual system of representation: the upper house would have equal representation from each state, while the lower house would have proportional representation based on a state's population.
Connecticut Compromise
This disposition, which is implanted in human nature, will operate in the federal legislature to lessen and ultimately to subvert the state authority,
that a free republic cannot succeed over a country of such immense extent, containing such a number of inhabitants,
Brutus I
Double Jeopardy!
moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4th to January 20th, and of members of Congress from March 4th to January 3rd.
20th Amendment
The political channels through which people's concerns become political issues on the policy agenda. In the United States, they include elections, political parties, interest groups, and the media.
Linkage Institutions
What are the 5 types of public policies?
Congressional Statue
Presidential Action
Court Decisions
Budgetary Choices
Regulation
A court order requiring jailers to explain to a judge why they are holding a prisoner in custody.
Writ of Habeas Corpus
The idea that a citizen gives up certain freedoms to the government, and in exchange the government agrees to protect the citizens' rights.
Social contract