Current Events
The Faction that controls the Legislative and Executive Branches of Government
What is the Democrats?
Type of powers given specifically in Article I Section 8
What are delegated/expressed/enumerated Powers?
Constitution delegates only certain powers to the National Government to prevent a leviathan.
What is Limited Government?
The case that established Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
What is the Elite Theory (Elitism)?
The Constitutional Clause that allows for the FCC to regulate the Internet
What is the Commerce Clause?
Type of Powers that both the state and national government have at the same time
What are Concurrent Powers?
“People are the ultimate controllers of the government aka ‘People Power’”
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The name of America’s first Constitution
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The founders idea of two levels of Government with a clear divide in the powers. Barron v. Baltimore justified this idea in 1833
What is Dual Federalism?
The representative for Maryland's 6th Congressional District
Who is David Trone?
The type of government that the US has which Madison said protects us from the "mischiefs of faction"
What is a Republic? (no other answer)
“Government power is divided between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches”
What is Separation of Powers
The Marshall case that solidified the precedent of the supremacy of the National Government
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
The Devolution of government was amplified when Bill Clinton signed this major legislation in 1996 creating block grants to states.
What is the Welfare Reform Act (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act)?
What are the Republicans (but I will take libertarian)
Federalism Amendment
What is the 10th amendment?
“Each branch has the ability to prevent other branches from becoming too powerful”
What are Checks and Balances?
The Articles of Confederation set up a unicameral legislature however the Great Compromise of the Constitution set up this type of legislature
What is bicameral?
Modern Era Court case which limited the Congress' ability of deciding what is "Necessary and Proper" with the Commerce Clause.
What is US v. Lopez? The Gun Free School Zone
One of Maryland's Two US Senators
Van Hollen or Cardin
(hmmm...was Brutus right?)
The Fraction of the States that must agree to RATIFY an amendment
What is 3/4?
“Courts have the power to review government actions/laws and determine whether they are constitutional”
What is Judicial Review
The territorial accomplishments of the Articles of Confederation that outlawed slavery and put aside land for public schools
What was the Northwest Ordinance (you need to Read the text!!)
The three authors of the Federalist Papers
Who were Madison, Hamilton, and John Jay (yep, all three pg 37 in the reading)