This theorist claims that when citizens only do what is best for themselves it leads to chaos in society.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
100
This was the first governing document in the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
This type of mandate is a regulation or new condition for receiving grants that impose costs on state and local governments for which they are not reimbursed by the national government.
What is an unfunded mandate?
100
Political scientist Harold Lasswell defined this as the struggle over who gets what, when, and how.
What is politics?
100
Under this compromise, five slaves would count as three free persons in apportioning seats in the House of Representatives.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
200
Prior to the twentieth century, most governments relied on these for revenue.
What are taxes on commerce? (Tariffs, duties)
200
These are the protections of citizens from improper government action.
What are civil liberties?
200
This clause allows the national government to interpret its delegated powers expansively.
What is the necessary and proper clause?
200
The power to declare war is an example of this type of power.
What is an expressed power?
200
This president presided over the New Deal.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
This event forced President Washington and the founders to rethink the Articles of Confederation, prompting the formation of the Constitution as we know it today.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
Taking private property for public use is covered under this provision.
What is eminent domain?
300
The right of every citizen to be protected against arbitrary action by national or state government is guaranteed under this amendment.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
These are powers exercised by both the federal and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
300
The process of applying the Bill of Rights to state governments on a case-by-case basis is laid out in this concept.
What is selective incorporation?
400
This group opposed the constitution and preferred a more decentralized system of government.
Who are the anti-federalists?
400
Article II of the U.S. Constitution establishes this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
400
This failed amendment proposed equality of rights under the law should not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any State on account of sex.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
400
This is a system of government in which power is divided by a constitution, between a central government and regional governments.
What is federalism?
400
These rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
500
These are the core political values in the United States.
What are liberty, equality, and democracy?
500
The Great Compromise established this type of legislature.
What is bicameral legislature?
500
This clause lays out the concept of a “separation of church and state.”
What is the establishment clause?
500
This type of government, also known as marble cake federalism, exists when national and state governments share powers and resources.
What is cooperative federalism?
500
The national government granting the states more authority over a range of policies is an example of this concept.