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What was the name of the US federal government that did not have the ability to tax or to oversee trade?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
What group advocated for more federal power in the national government?
What is the federalists?
What federalist paper focused on the idea of factions and how they should be avoided?
What is Federalist no. 10?
What compromise counted every 5 enslaved people as 3 people?
What is the 3/5 compromise?
What type of democracy uses direct public voting on every issue?
What is participatory democracy?
What are the differences between funded and unfunded mandates?
What is funded mandates have money involved.
What were anti-federalists afraid of?
What is a strong federal government, turning into England
What paper focused on why a large republic is dangerous to liberty and representing the public?
What is Brutus No. 1
What clause in the Constitution allows for the Legislative branch to pass laws regarding anything necessary and proper?
What is the necessary and proper clause?
What is elite democracy?
What type of grant has "strings attached" when it comes with what the state has to do with the money?
What is categorical grants?
What type of federalism is using money to gain more federal power?
What is fiscal federalism?
How does Hamilton in Fed. 51 state that the federal power can be checked? How does Fed. 51 prove that a powerful federal power can still represent the people?
What is Checks and Balances, three branch government where each branch interacts with each other
What clause in the Constitution puts Federal laws above state laws?
What is the supremacy clause?
What rebellion lead to the Constitutional Convention?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
What is the commerce clause/what does it do?
It allows for the federal government to oversee trade with foreign nations, native american tribes and interstate commerce.
What group favored the New Jersey plan at the Constitutional Convention?
Anti-Federalists
What are the characteristics of a good republic according to Madison?
Government represents and derives from the people
Representatives follow the rules set out for them
Name one Court Case that expanded the necessary and proper clause.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland
What is the idea that the federal branches of the government have different rules to prevent one branch from getting to powerful?
What is checks and balances?
At the Constitutional Convention, what were the main fears of both the federalists and anti-federalists?
Federalists: Lack of strong central power, turning back into Articles of Confederation
Anti-Federalists: Small states don't get representation, nothing to prevent federal government from overexerting its power.
Name the 5 examples that Madison provides on Federalist no. 39 that proves that states still have power in the federal government.
The House
The Senate
Amendment Ratification
Constitution Ratification
The Federal Government
Name what were the results of the Great Compromise.
House of Representatives based on population
Senate based on state (2 per)
Three branches of government (Legislative, Executive, Judical)
What ideas did the founding fathers gain from enlightenment philosophers?
Idea of a republic as best form of government, role of government to protect natural rights (life, liberty, property), government should represent the people and its interests.