Constitution
What did the supremacy clause establish?
Federal law/U.S. Constitution take precedence over state laws/state constitutions.
Thomas Jefferson mainly incorporated the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker in the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke
What document failed to create an effective government and needed to be replaced by the Constitution?
Articles of Confederation
What was the date that the 13 colonies declared independence from Great Britain?
July 4th, 1776
System of government where power is divided between a national government and the states.
Federalism
What are the 3 branches that were established in the Constitution?
What three rights did John Locke say were inalienable under natural law?
Life, liberty, and property
What was a foundational document argued that the Constitution wouldn't work because the US is too big?
Brutis I
Which court case stated the Commerce Clause was stretched too far to justify gun restriction at schools?
U.S. v. Lopez
What is a group of self-interested people who use the government to get what they want, trampling the rights of others in the process? (Federalist 10 discusses these groups)
Faction
Which article of the Constitution was the longest and what does it discuss?
Article I, the legislative branch
Which philosopher believed government should be based on the Will of the People?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Federalist 51 described the importance of what?
Separation of powers.
What event was the catalyst for writing the Constitution?
Shays' Rebellion
Define popular sovereignty.
The idea that the government's right to rule comes from the people.
Add amendments to the Constitution.
What political concept used in U.S. government today did Baron de Montesquieu create?
Separation of powers
Which foundational document warned of Factions but said the US was so big, they would cancel each other out?
Federalist 10
What was the court case involving the necessary and proper clause, stating that it could be used to stretch the enumerated powers (specifically the Commerce Clause)?
McCulloch v. Maryland
What is the difference between participatory democracy and elite democracy?
Participatory democracy involved widespread political participation while elite democracy involves elected representatives making decisions and acting as trustees for those who elected them.
What is Article IV (4) about?
Addresses relations among the states.
Who wrote a pamphlet (Common Sense) that attacked the monarchy and advocated for a system where power rests with the people, not kings?
Thomas Paine
Which document is this from:
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."
Declaration of Independence
Which war led to the Stamp Act?
French Indian War
What was the Great Compromise
Created bicameral legislature. House based on population and Senate based on equal representation.