American History Weird
This president, known for his constitutional interpretation of the presidency, once had to be rescued from his bathtub by six men.
Who is William Howard Taft?
The document that John Ross helped create, in response to Thomas Jefferson's insistence that this tribal nation develop regular laws.
What is the Constitution of the Cherokee Nation?
The president who believed that Indigenous nations should be treated as foreign nations, while maintaining isolationism in all other respects.
Who is George Washington?
What is greed?
These two methods of constitutional interpretation share a common word, but differ in how the Constitution ought to be viewed.
What are original intent and original meaning?
This president, the first elected after women could vote, was maybe probably murdered by his wife, Florence, after having multiple affairs.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
What are state police powers?
Teddy Roosevelt's belief that the president should act always in the best interest of the people, energetically, regardless of the text of the Constitution if necessary.
What is the stewardship theory of the president?
The true basis of good constitutionalism, which would ward off false morality, according to Alexander Stephens.
What is scientific racism?
In this case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Congress may use the commerce clause to justify intrastate intervention, when individual economic activity may tend, when aggregated, to affect interstate commerce.
What is Wickard v. Filburn?
Alexis de Tocqueville concluded that this was the primary protection in the United States against tyranny.
What are good republican mores (or the American character)?
The principle favored by Brutus, when he argued that state governments could best understand and represent the unique interests of their communities.
What is the principle of subsidiarity (or local solutions to local problems)?
The constitutional question that vexed Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of the Civil War, which led him to arrest a congressman from Ohio, among others.
What is the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
The clause of the Constitution that Brutus feared would eventually be used to justify any and all congressional legislative activity.
What is the necessary and proper clause?
Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 78, argued that the Supreme Court would be the weakest of the three branches in part because justices would interpret the Constitution in this manner.
What is textualism?
This Chief Justice of the Supreme Court lived a seemingly contradictory life, freeing his father's slaves and paying them reparations while authoring the Dred Scott decision.
Who is Roger Taney?
Frederick Douglass argued that these changes to the Constitution, while fundamentally altering southern culture, would not fundamentally alter the relationship between the states and the federal government.
What are the Civil War amendments (13, 14, and 15)?
One of the stipulations that Thomas Jefferson told the people of the Cherokee Nation would be necessary to becoming American citizens, a stipulation contrary to their understanding of land ownership.
What is the ownership of private (landed) property?
The case in which Congress argued that it could use the commerce clause to ban the possession of firearms in schools across the country.
What is United States v. Lopez?
Article III, sec. 1 of the Constitution authorizes this institution to create inferior courts.
What is Congress?
This advocate for women's suffrage argued that progress should be viewed as an inevitable trend of history.
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
Woodrow Wilson's vision for a more efficient United States, run by appointed bureaucrats (experts) to be more responsive to the people.
What is the organic theory of government?
The sworn statement that every president must make to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution."
What is the Oath of Office?
The doctrine that stipulates that different abilities should be contained within different branches of government, and that these should be kept from accumulating into a single body.
What is the separation of powers?
(Checks and Balances are how this is accomplished)
The view, when interpreting the Constitution, that the spirit of the document (drawn often from the preamble) should take priority over the text.
What is aspirationalism?