Unit(s) 1.1-1.2
Government where power is divided between national and state governments
Federalism
The two main opposing beliefs
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
Document that holds every humans natural rights
Bill of rights
Section 9 states what ... isn't allowed to do
Congress
The first supreme court case that limited Congress’s power under the commerce clause
United States v. Lopez
Government where citizens of sovereign states elect leaders for a limited time who execute the laws
Republicanism.
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution
Necessary & Proper Clause
Document that succeeds the Articles of Confederation
The United States Constitution
This part of the Constitution says federal law is stronger than state law
Supremacy Clause
In the court case, Congress went too far banning guns in this area
School zone
Government where people entrust electees to act in their best interest
Representative Democracy
Government where states have majority of the power
Confederal Government
The three branches of the U.S. Government
Legislative, Executive, Judical
Supreme Court case that established that states cannot tax the federal government
McCulloch v. Maryland
This court case was important because it shifted the power toward...
The states over the senate
"Natural laws should govern society" - ???
John Locke
Biggest problem within the Articles of Confederation
Every single state must agree to change any laws in the document
(And/Or)
Weakness of the central government
How to make a government that has power to protect liberty, while also not being able to destroy it?
Checks & Balances;
Separation of powers
This Amendment says powers not given to the federal government are reserved for the states or the people
Tenth Amendment
Amendment that gave congress the ability to collect tax
Sixteenth Amendment
The three forms of representative democracy
Participatory, Pluralist, Elite
James Madison's three solutions to factions
Allow them to form yet limit their power;
Remove the causes of factions;
Control the effects of factions
To ratify an amendment
Three-fourths(3/4s) of the states must approve of it
These three types of power are given to the national government, the states, or both
The exclusive, reserved, and concurrent powers
The United States ruled that carrying a gun near a school limited Congress’s power over what clause
Commerce Clause