The Founding
Provide for the common defense, insure domestic tranquility, establish justice, and secure the blessings of liberty.
What are the four purposes of government according to the Constitution?
Clause stating that states have to respect each other’s laws.
What is the Full Faith and Credit clause?
Powers that were specifically laid out in the first three Articles and given to congress, the executive, or the judiciary.
What are enumerated powers?
Rights that guarantee individuals freedom from discrimination.
What are civil rights?
This is the process of having power over how many people are involved in a political fight.
What is "controlling the scope of conflict"?
Fear of this lead to the founders creating a weak executive in the Articles of Confederation.
Who is a king/tyrant?
The form of federalism in which federal and state governments work together to provide services.
This clause grants congress the power to pass all laws related to its expressed powers.
What is the necessary and proper clause?
Negative perceptions of the economy and rising crime and poverty cause this feeling.
What is distrust?
A document that was originally written to help with the American Revolutionary War effort and gain foreign support in the war.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A situation in which states try to compete with each other by lowering the costs of production such as wages, taxes, and regulations in order to become more attractive to businesses; business will migrate to the states with the lowest costs
What is "Race to the Bottom"?
Powers that are not explicitly stated in the constitution, but can be inferred from enumerated powers.
What are implied powers?
This piece of legislation banned discrimination based on race.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
An explanation for why Americans would have high levels of support for capital punishment, but low levels of distrust in government.
What is ' "Degovernmentalizing" capital punishment/increasingly seeing capital punishment as a form of vigilante justice'?
A type of government that concentrated power in the states, not in the national government; also the type of government set up through the Articles of Confederation.
What is a decentralized government?
States fighting with each other, states fighting with the federal government, conflict between states' interests and the national interest, a stepping stone to complete state independence.
What are the four dilemmas of federalism?
Establishing post offices and roads and granting patents and copyrights are examples of powers of this branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
The idea that government gains legitimacy through regular elections in which people living under the government participate to elect their leaders.
What is popular sovereignty?
An event that occurred after the Articles of Confederation were ratified because the states were in debt and increased their taxes.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
New Jersey v. New York (1998), when the Court determined that 83% of Ellis Island was part of New Jersey, is an example of this federalism dispute.
What is border dispute?
This branch of government was considered by Alexander Hamilton to be the "least dangerous branch" because it contained "neither the power of the purse nor the power of the sword".
What is the judicial branch?
This is a limit on freedom of the press that allows the government to prohibit the media from publishing certain materials.
What is prior restraint?
One of the Civil War amendments which provided citizenship rights and provided equal protection under the law.
What is The 14th Amendment?