Ideals of Democracy + Types of Democracy
The person who believed that a governed state is best for society and people must give up some of their rights for the good of all.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The author and purpose of Federalist 10.
Why did Madison convince the public to ratify the Constitution?
A bi-cameral legislation was made as a result of a compromise between two plans.
What is the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan? Did the Virginia Plan say that states should be represented by population? Did the New Jersey Plan say that states should be represented equally?
National power became limited by the Enumerated Powers in a clause.
What is the supremacy clause?
A federal act that required an "Impact Statement" from any government whose plan may be harmful to the environment.
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
The ideas of John Locke that were incorporated in the Declaration of Independence.
What are natural rights and the role of the government in protecting them?
Madison was not a fan of pure democracy.
Did Madison believe that there were no protections from minority views?
There needed to be a way to count votes for slaves in slave states.
What was the 3/5 Compromise?
The most popular grant type that comes with "strings attached".
What is a categorical grant?
A federal environmental agency that can require states to follow required laws (though their power is limited by the SCOTUS).
What is the EPA?
Citizens are involved in politics at a broad scale.
What is the participatory form of a representative form of democracy?
Population causes an increase in...
What are factions?
The number of a electors in the electoral college per state.
Does the number of electors equal a state's number of members in Congress?
In 1819, a supreme court case tipped the more power between the states and federal government over to the federal government.
What was McCulloch vs. Maryland?
A special interest group for legalizing marijuana.
Initiative and referendum.
What is people being able to propose a law and what is when people approve a law?
Article 6 of the Constitution states that federal law trumps state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The clause that gave Congress the power to regulate trade between states and set tariffs on imports (but not exports).
What is the Commerce Clause?
Any powers not listed in Articles 1-3 belong to the states.
What are reserved powers?
A supreme court case established the practices of selective exclusiveness and dual federalism.
What is Gibbons vs. Ogden?
When people create interest groups to influence policy making.
What is the pluralist form of representative democracy?
Article 13 requires how many votes to amend the articles of confederation?
What is a unanimous vote?
A president killing a bill by refusing to sign it for a long time. ** Congress can override a veto with a 2/3 vote in each house.
States can't deny equal protection of the laws.
The federal income tax was created.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?