CATEGORY #1
The people hold power and the people are free to govern.
Popular Sovereignty
The government is divided so no part hold too much power and that each part holds power over another.
Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances
The people have rights that the government cannot take away.
Civil Rights
The government is limited in its power.
Limited Government
The four features that make a state/country.
Population, territory, sovereignty, and government.
Liberty, Equality, Free Enterprise
A small group of people, chosen by the people to act as their representatives, expresses the popular will.
Indirect Democracy
The three branches of The United States government...
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Served as the first constitution and established the Congress of the Confederation as the sole central governing body.
Articles of Confederation
Article 3 of the United States Constitution sets up what branch which includes what federal position(s)?
Judicial – Judges
Article 2 of the United States Constitution sets up what branch which includes what federal position(s)?
Executive – President
Article 1 of the United States Constitution sets up what branch which includes what federal position(s)?
Legislative – House of Reps and Senate
The three factors that classify a government.
Who can participate
Geographic distribution of power
Relationship between legislative and executive
Based on classification of different governments discussed in class The United States can best be described as...
Indirect (Representative) Republic Democracy
Which article of the constitution gives power to make amendments to the constitution?
Article 5
Type of representative democracy with an elected head of state rather than a king or queen.
Republic
The Constitution establishes the Constitution and United States laws as the “Supreme Law of the Land.”
Supremacy Clause
Governments where leaders are not required to answer to the people.
Authoritarian
What is the only limitation in the Constitution as to what can be the basis of an amendment?
An amendment banning the slave trade.
System of government in which the powers of government are divided between a central government and several local governments.
Federalism
Powers found directly in the constitution.
Expressed Powers
The power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action.
Judicial Review
Powers not directly stated in the constitution but are based on what the expressed powers say.
Implied Powers
DAILY DOUBLE
List 3 powers of the national government
List 3 powers of the state governments
List 3 powers that are shared
National: coin money, regulate interstate and foreign trade, maintain armed forces, declare war, govern territories, conduct foreign relations.
State: regulate business within the state, establish public schools, license requirements, regulate alcohol, conduct elections, establish local government.
Shared: collect taxes, borrow money, establish courts, define crimes and punishments, claim private property for public use.
Explain a social contract...
The people would agree to give up some of its freedom if the government agreed to protect the people’s rights.
What were factors that led to the revolutionary war?
Proclamation of 1763
British imposed taxes
Sugar Act of 1764
Stamp Act of 1765
Taxed without Representation
Intolerable Acts
Why do we have separation of powers?
1.The more power the government has the more of threat there is to individual liberty,
2.Therefore, governmental power should be restrained.
3.Dividing governmental power could limit its power.
What are the three natural rights John Locke believe all people have? What did Locke believe the purpose of government was?
Life, Liberty, Property
End the state of nature and protect natural rights.
When members of congress are working to resolve conflicts over the country’s resources, they are participating in…
Politics
The clause that gives Congress the most general, non-specific powers.
Elastic Clause/Necessary and Proper Clause