What Amendment is this?
Freedom to religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petition
What is the 1st Amendment?
What is Articles of Confederation?
A way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of government share formal authority over the same area and people
What is federalism?
The constitutional and other legal protections against government actions. Our ___ are formally set down in the Bill of Rights.
What is civil liberties?
- A policy document allocating burdens (taxes) and benefits.
- Government spending. Major areas of federal spending are social services and national defense.
- The financial resources of the government. The individual income tax and Social Security tax are two major sources of the federal government’s revenue.
What is Budget?
What are Expenditures?
What are Revenues?
No unreasonable search or arrest
What is the 4th Amendment?
This large state contribution to the Constitutional Convention called for a strong national government
What is the Virginia Plan?
A system government in which states and the national government share powers and policy assignments.
what is cooperative federalism?
The rule that evidence cannot be introduced into a trail if it was not obtained in a constitutional manner. The rule prohibits use of evidence obtained through unreasonable search and seizure.
What is Exclusionary rule?
An excess of federal expenditures over federal revenues
What is deficit?
Any rights not given to federal government are given to the states and people
The 1803 case in which the Supreme Court asserted its power to determine the meaning of the U.S. constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress.
What is Marbury V. Madison?
Federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes, or categories, of state and local spending. They come with strings attached , such as nondiscrimination provisions.
What is categorical grants?
Part of the 14th Amendment guaranteeing that persons cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property by the U.S. or state government without ____ of law
What is due process clause?
A 1935 law intended to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older Americans and thus save them from poverty.
What is the Social Security Act?
Citizens cannot be required to pay a poll tax to vote
What is 24th Amendment?
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Powers of the federal government that go beyond those enumerated in the Constitution, in accordance with the statement in the Constitution that Congress has the power to "make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution" the powers enumerated in Article 1
What is implied powers?
The 1883 Supreme Court decision holding that the Bill of Rights restrained only the national government, not the states or cities.
What is Barron V. Baltimore?
Expenditures that are determined by how many eligible beneficiaries there are for a program or by previous obligations of the government and that Congress therefore cannot easily control.
What is uncontrollable expenditures?
Pay increases for Congress cannot be implemented until after the next election cycle.
What is the 27th Amendment?
Features of the Constitution that require each branch of the federal government to obtain the consent of the others for its actions; they limit the power of each branch
What are checks and balances?
A landmark cases decided in 1824 in which the Supreme Court interpreted very broadly the clause in Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution and defined the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce as encompassing virtually every form of commercial activity.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
The publication of false and malicious statements that may damage someone’s reputation
What is libel?
A description of the budget process in which the best predictor of this year’s budget is last year’s budget, plus a little bit more (an increment). According to Aaron Wildavsky, “Most of the budget is a product of previous decisions.
What is incrementalism?