Enlightenment Ideals
The political system in which restrictions are placed on the government in order to protect individual liberty.
What is limited government?
The term that describes the shifting balance of power relationship between levels of government, specifically the states and national government.
What is federalism?
Can only be started in the House of Representatives, and typically is started in the House Judiciary Committee.
What is impeachment?
"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union..."
What is the U.S. Constitution?
It emphasizes broad participation in politics and civil society.
What is participatory democracy?
The natural rights John Locke believed all people are born with.
What is life, liberty, and property?
Case where Congress tried to use the Commerce Clause to preempt state power over education & gun rights.
What is US v. Lopez?
Requirements for an impeachment conviction.
What is 2/3 majority of the Senate?
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion,
What is Federalist No. 10?
Type of federalism in which the responsibilities, roles, and powers of different levels of government are intertwined and overlap.
What is cooperative federalism?
Hobbes believed that once we were bound by this that it could not be changed. It is the idea that people give up some liberty in exchange for protection.
What is the Social Contract?
The Amendment that helps set up the foundations of federalism.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Possible offenses a president can be impeached for.
What is treason, bribery, and high crimes or misdemeanors?
Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Powers based on the Necessary and Proper Clause.
What are implied powers?
The basic premise that the government's power comes from the "consent of the governed," which Rousseau wrote in his disagreement to Hobbes.
What is popular sovereignty?
The case which affirmed the supremacy of the Constitution and the United States government over states.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Fraction of both houses of Congress OR of state legislatures needed to propose an amendment.
What is 2/3?
In so extensive a republic, the great officers of government would soon become above the control of the people, and abuse their power to the purpose of aggrandizing themselves, and oppressing them..
What is Brutus No. 1?
Elite democracy.
What is the type of representative democracy in which possession of certain resources makes certain voices more weighted than others?
Republicanism
What is the idea that elected leaders represent the will of the people called?
How the federal government helps switch the balance of power in relation to states.
What is/are... Block grants, money, unfunded mandates, categorical grants?
Number of states currently needed to ratify an amendment to the Constitution.
What is 38?
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
What is Federalist No. 51?
Examples include political parties, interest groups, and any group based activism that is striving to make an impact on policy.
What is pluralist democracy?