Amendments
Limits President to 2 terms
22nd Amendment
Abolished slavery. First of three "Reconstruction Amendments" passed after Civil War (1865-70)
13th Amendment
City in which most of Hamilton takes place.
What is New York City?
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.
What is FEDERALIST NO. 10?
A resolution of the New Jersey and Virginia Plans creating a bicameral congress with equal representation in the Senate and apportionment based on population in the House of Representatives
What is the GREAT COMPROMISE?
Powers not expressly given to federal government by the Constitution are reserved to states or the people. Also known as "reserved powers amendment" or "states' rights amendment"
10th Amendment
US v. Lopez decided that Congress had overstepped its power. Congress claimed that they were able to regulate gun laws because of the ______ clause of the Constitution.
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
Advice that Aaron Burr gives Hamilton.
What is TALK LESS, SMILE MORE?
What document says - But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
Fed 51
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the __________
Declaration of Independence
Consent of the Governed
States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race. Third of three "Reconstruction Amendments" passed after Civil War. First Voting Rights Amendment (with 19, 24 & 26)
15th Amendment
The two clauses of the First Amendment that deal with religion are...
Establishment
Free excercise
First name of Hamilton's oldest sister-in law.
What is ANGELICA?
Supreme Court case that decided that the possession of a gun in a local school zone is in no sense an economic activity that might, through repetition elsewhere, substantially affect any sort of interstate commerce.
United States v. Lopez
Document that created strong states governments and a weak, ineffective central government
What are the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION?
States cannot deny the right to vote based on gender
19th Amendment
Founders rationale for creating the Electoral College
Barrier between voters and the presidential election, educated electors will actually cast the vote, elitist democracy - yay Hamilton!
Battle where Hamilton achieved military fame
What is YORKTOWN?
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
Each branch of government has power to limit the power of the other two branches of government
What are CHECKS AND BALANCES?
guarantees a speedy trial, an impartial jury, that the accused can confront witnesses against them, and that the accused must be allowed to have a lawyer.
6th Amendment
Numbers of members in the U.S. House of Representatives
What is 435?
He killed Hamilton in a duel
Who is AARON BURR?
Supreme Court Case where Chief Justice Marshall ruled in favor of the Federal Government and concluded “the power to tax involves the power to destroy."
McCulloch v. Maryland
Name of one US Senator from Georgia
Who are OSOFF AND WARNOCK?