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The Constitution and the Bill of Rights protects this. ____
What is Individual Rights
100
People are the ultimate rulers. ______
What is Popular Sovereignty
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - You can wager up to any amount that you currently have. If you have no money or are in negative then you can wager up to $500.
System in which the national government & governments of each of the states coexist. _____
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - You can wager up to any amount that you currently have. If you have no money or are in negative then you can wager up to $500.
Each of the three federal government branches have the power to restrain other branches to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful & abusing its power.
100
Final Jeopardy Question. Please put your wager on a separate piece of paper. You can wager any amount that you currently have.
How does the state's constitutions differ from the federal constitution?
200
This branch of Government was created to enact legislation and then approve legislation.
What is Legislative Branch
200
Powers not granted to the national government are retained by the states and/or the people. Not the 10th Amendment
What is Reserved Powers
200
This branch of Government was created to enforce laws:
What is Executive Branch
200
This branch of Government was created to explain the meaning of laws and make sure that the laws that are being created are constitutional
What is Judicial Branch
200
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The following statement is what?
What is 10th Amendment
300
Grants Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes.”
What is Commerce Clause
300
A specific grant of authority to the central government. ________
What is Enumerated Powers
300
Each branch of federal government has their own specific powers, independent of those held by others. ________
What is Separation of Powers
300
Powers shared by the Federal & the State Government
What is Concurrent Powers
300
Grants Congress the power “to make all laws, which shall be necessary and proper, for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, in any department or officer thereof.”
What is Necessary & Proper Clause
400
“This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
What is Article IV
400
Only powers the Government has are the powers specifically granted to them in the Constitution; literal/narrow view of the constitution
What is Strict Construction
400
A broad interpretation of a statue or document by a court.
What is a Loose Construction
400
When we reviewed the court cases in class, we found that the courts tend to favor either the strict or loose construction of the Constitution?
What is Loose Construction
400
Why is it important for states to have similar laws and requirements?
What is to make travel/moving among the states easier
500
What does Article Four do?
What is defines the relations among the individual states as well as the constitutional requirements on state governments
500
Example of direct democracy when the citizens can directly control government by amending the state constitution or passing a new law.
What is initiative
500
Gives the citizens the power to remove elected state or local officers (except judges) from office.
What is Recall
500
Gives the people the power to repeal a law that was previously enacted by the state legislature.
What is Referendum
500
Those in position of authority as well as ordinary citizens are governed by laws & nobody is above the law. ____
What is Rule of Law
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