Articles of Confederation
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress does not have this power to levy these, though they do now under our current system of law on April 15.
What are taxes?
These are the three natural rights as listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This Federalist Paper defines what a faction is and why they are inevitable in a democracy.
What is Federalist 10?
This Antifederalist Paper is given the name of someone who fights against a strong central government under Julius Caesar.
What is Brutus 1?
Under the Constitution, Congress needs a 2/3rds majority to pass a law on to the President. However, under the Articles of Confederation, you need this percentage of states to pass a law.
What is 100%
The government must protect our natural rights. In return the people must elect officials and follow the laws of the government. This agreement is known as what.
What is the social contract?
Who is Gandhi?
This Federalist Paper describes the purpose behind separation of powers and the purpose of checks and balances.
What is Federalist 51?
What is fear of this new government becoming too British and abusing the power of its citizens?
What is a national army?
As part of the social contract we agree to elect officials to our form of government. In other words, our votes show that we agree with who is in office. This is known as...
What is consent of the governed?
At the beginning of Dr. King's letter, he is addressing it to this specific group who was critical of Dr. King's willingness to break laws.
Who are Christian ministers?
This Federalist Paper defines good government and why a unitary and energetic executive is necessary to achieve good government.
What is Federalist 70?
One of the arguments of Brutus 1 is that the federal courts might destroy liberty. A current day Supreme Court Case that supports this argument is one of the following.
Dobbs v Jackson, Louisiana v Callais
After Shay's Rebellion, the founders realized that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. They moved to Philadelphia in the 1780's to try and create this document.
What is the Constitution?
These are two grievances of complaints that Mr. Jefferson writes about King George III which tie directly into two different Constitutional Amendments
What are keeping standing armies in the homes of colonists and taking British soldiers away from the colonies to have a trial in England despite committing crimes in the colonies.
What is the 14th Amendment (Equal Protection under the law)?
This Federalist Paper explains and justifies the structure and role of the federal judiciary and the importance of having an independent judiciary.
What is Federalist 78?
This is one way in which the federal government, without the judicial argument, proves Brutus 1 correct.
Corruption in the Government, standing armies wreaking havoc, etc....
These are two difference between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
What are taxation, representation in Congress, and currency through the United States?
The colonists of the American Revolution justified their fighting through this argument.
What is that the British violated the Social Contract?
These are one or two groups that Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail has influenced today.
What are Black Lives Matters and the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
These are two of the three Federalists who wrote the Federalist Papers.
Who are John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton?
Socialized Heath Care goes against state governments.
Lots of competition among the companies is good for the country.