Bill of Rights
What are the 5 freedoms given in the bill of rights?
What is Speech, religion, press, assembly, petition
Collecting taxes and borrowing money are an example of what?
Concurrent powers or powers shared by the federal and state government
Seperation of Powers is...
Creating of 3 branches of Government: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
What is a Monarchy?
Power is given by birth- King or Queen
Which BIG IDEA is represented by the Mayflower Compact?
What is Self Government
This amendment gives citizens their defendant rights if arrested.
What is amendment 6
Enumerated or delagated powers are also called what?
Federal power- powers given to the federal government in the constitution
What is the term when the Judicial branch checks to make sure the Executive and Legislative branch are following the law?
Judicial Review
What is a government that is run by the people, either directly or indirectly?
Democracy
The U.S. Supreme Court declaring a law created by Congress unconstitutional is an example of...
Checks and Balances
What right is protected in Amendment 4?
What is the right against warrant less searches and seizures.
Drivers licenses, public education, and property rules are examples of what type of powers?
Reserved powers or Powers reserved (given) to the State
What does the phrase "insure domestic tranquility" in the Preamble of the Constitution mean?
Ensure peace on the home front or in our home country
What is the term for a type of government in which one person possesses unlimited power?
Dictator
Taxation without representation • Limiting judicial powers • Quartering Troops • Dissolving legislature
These are all complaints listed in which document?
Declaration of Independence
Which 3 documents were the Bill of Rights based on?
The Magna Carta, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and the English Bill of Rights
Building roads, enforcing laws are examples of these
local powers
Grants pardons, vetos laws, appoints judges, commander in chief are powers of which Branch of the Government?
Executive
What is the absence of a form of government?
Anarchy
What did many American colonists use Thomas Paine's Common Sense to justify?
Declaring Independence from England
According to the tenth amendment, who gets all of the powers that are not specifically called out in the Constitution?
This is the sharing power between the national government and the states.
This states the government can create laws when it is proper and necessary.
Elastic Clause
A form of government that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole
Socialism
What are the 6 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
No Central Leadership, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade, Could not enforce laws, no national court system, needed unanimous approval from all 13 states to make any changes