The Democratic Republic
A system of government in which political authority is vested in the people.
What is democracy?
This was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. It was approved, after much debate, by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the states for ratification.
What are the articles of confederation?
This system lies between a unitary and confederal system where authority is divided.
What is federalism or dual federalism?
These are all examples of...
What are civil liberties?
These type of rights are rooted out from the 14th amendment to guarantee of equal protection under the law.
What is civil rights?
A deliberative assembly of people with authority to establish laws for a political entity (e.g. country or state)
What is the legislature?
This concepts helps our government system regulated itself through counterbalancing power and influence.
What are checks and balances?
A clause within the United States Constitution that grants Congress the power to pass whatever laws are deemed “necessary and proper” to help Congress to carry out the enumerated powers.
What is the “Elastic Clause”?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, by including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States".
What is the 14th amendment?
These laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
What are jim crow laws?
This theory posits that a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks, holds the most power—and that this power is independent of democratic elections.
What is Elite theory?
This act of armed protesting was in opposition of rising taxes and the debt crisis. The fight took place mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787.
What is Shay's rebellion?
This is a concept of federalism in which federal, state, and local governments interact cooperatively and collectively to solve common problems.
What is cooperative federalism?
This clause stops congress from prohibiting the right to practice any religion.
What is the free exercise clause?
This legal doctrine was allowed because of a loophole in the 14th amendment
What is the separate but equal?
This process describes how and which political beliefs and values are transmitted to children and new immigrants. The family and education are the biggest sources of this type of socialization.
What is political socialization?
This court case established judicial review.
This type of grant is usually preferred over categorical grants because local authority controls how it is dispersed?
What are block grants?
Sit-ins, button wearing, protesting, flag waving, demonstrations are all examples of this type of speech.
What is symbolic speech?
This court case allowed for the ban of racial segregation in public schools, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality, because it was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This concept provides legitimacy to the American government because it enforces the idea "Rule of the People".
What is popular sovereignty?
The voluntary agreement among individuals by which an organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members. This is according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau,
What is the social compact?
U.S. Supreme Court case established the principle that states cannot, by legislative enactment, interfere with the power of Congress to regulate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
We have freedom of speech!
However this rule allows for that freedom to be restricted if it is believed that a form of speech has a sole tendency to incite or cause illegal activity.
What is the bad tendency rule?
This court case established 1 person 1 vote.
What is Baker v. Carr?