Ideals and Types of Democracy
What is the name of the definition below:
An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
Social Contract
Anti-Federalists believed that power should lie with the ______?
States
Which State did not attend the Constitutional Convention?
Rhode Island
What is the most numerous and representative branch?
Legislative
What amendment promises US citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States
14th Amendment
In who's famous work, did they argue that when humans live in “a state of nature” rather than a governed state, the result is anarchy and war?
Thomas Hobbes
What was the name of the Anti Federalist Essays?
Brutus
Which plan stated:
Government with three branches, including a bicameral legislature determined by population in both chambers
Virginia Plan
What term fits the definition below?
- The balance of power among a central, national authority and state or regional authorities
Federalism
Does the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lend more power to the federal government or state governments?
Federal
Which philosopher believed in the separation of powers in the administrative government, comprised of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches
Baron De Montesquieu
Which clause gives congress implied powers. Meaning if it is assumed to be true. Even if it is not stated.
Necessary and Proper Clause a.k.a Elastic Clause
Which Plan Stated:
The unicameral legislature would include equal representation of the states
New Jersey Plan
What are powers explicitly given to the federal government within the U.S. Constitution called?
Delegated/Exclusive Powers
Case that restricted congress's use of the commerce clause?
U.S vs. Lopez
What type of Democracy falls into the following categories:
Town hall meetings
Cities/districtes determining local taxes
State Level Popular Votes
Participatory
What is the clause from the definition below?
federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the "supreme Law of the Land", and thus take priority over any conflicting state laws
The Supremacy Clause
What deal brought an agreement between big and small states in which:
Created a two-house legislature composed
of the House of Representatives and the Senate
Great/Connecticut Compromise
What are Powers held by both federal government and states (but these powers are carried out independently)?
Concurrent Powers
What case refers to the states taxing the federal government?
McCulloch v. Maryland
What is the type of democracy given through the example below?
The Electoral College (does not include the public) enables people to determine the president
Elitism
Under the AOC. How many votes were required to create national legislation?
9/13
What was the compromise based on the problem below?
Counting slaves in a state’s population could increase the population/power of slave states in the House of Representatives
3/5 Compromise
What term fits the definition below?
- Federal money given to states for use within a broad purpose
This creates more (but not total) freedom for states
Block Grant
Powers given to the federal government that are not directly written in the Constitution
Implied/Inherited Powers