Philosophical Matters
This is the name for when sovereignty or political authority is justified by religious belief.
This is the term for when governing power shifts between local, state, and national levels.
What is federalism?
Registering for the selective service is legally required of all ______ citizens at age 18.
What is "male"?
John Locke believed in limited government because he asserted that every person has __________ rights.
What is natural?
The Supreme Court follows the legal principle of stare decisis (let the decision stand), which is another word for this.
What is precedent?
This is when all aspects of a person's life are regulated and monitored by the State.
This is the overall term for cities, towns, and villages.
What is municipality? (Municipal is acceptable.)
A good citizen has a lot of civic _______ .
What is "virtue"?
What is the rule of law?
This is the number of the Article in the Constitution that describes the Judicial Branch.
What is Article III of the Constitution?
These two elements are the key principles in republicanism.
What are popular sovereignty and representative democracy?
If the states of the USA had all the power, our system of government would be _____________.
What is confederal or confederation?
This the major way that a US citizen is obligated to help with administering criminal justice.
What is serving on a jury?
This Amendment limits the power of the government to search your property.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This case established the concept of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This is the form of government where the state uses its power to run some of the country's large industries.
What is socialism?
Great Britain, there is very little local government. the United Kingdom runs almost its entire government through the national level, and has this type of system.
What is a unitary system of government?
Federalist Papers 5 and 49 describe the tension between these two goals in a human society.
What is self-interest and public/common good?
The English Bill of Rights reduced the power of the British king by asserting this about the law.
Only the Parliament had power to make the laws and the monarch only executes them.
This the name for when the Supreme Court Justices decide to hear a case from the lower courts.
What is writ of certiorari?
This is the theory/source of governmental power that is justified by slow change over time.
What is evolutionary?
These are the two situations in US history when state governments had all the power.
Under the Articles of Confederation and the Confederacy during the Civil War.
This is the obligation of citizenship that Americans probably enjoy the least.
What is paying taxes?
This is the philosopher who said that because you have the obligation to abuse your power, good government is designed to have separation of powers.
Who was Montesquieu?
This case established "implied powers" in the Constitution when the Supreme Court interpreted the "necessary and proper" clause in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?