Can't we just get along?
The Tragedy of the commons
What is a collective action problem relating to the exploitation of a communal resources. Possible solutions include privatization and public/gov regulation?
Coin money Conduct foreign relations Provide for army and navy Declare war Collect duties and taxes
What are examples of enumerated powers of the federal government?
The "Great Compromise" at the constitutional convention
What plan bridged the differences between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan?
Confirmed implied powers and supremacy of national law
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
Oligarchy
What did Aristotle call rule by the few motivated by self-interest?
Free rider
Who is someone who receives a collective benefit without contributing?
Allowed Congress to collect income tax and expanded their powers into new policy areas
What is the significance of the 16th amendment?
The topics of the first three articles of the Constitution.
What are 1. Legislative Branch established and powers 2. Executive branch 3. Judicial branch
Gibbons v Ogden
What case expanded federal power--concerned Congress' power to regulate commerce between the states
Enlightenment era thinker that inspired Jefferson with his ideas about social contract theory, private property rights, and individual liberty
Who is John Locke?
Contracts, constitutions, laws, norms of behavior
What are institutions and/or What is ways to overcome collective action problems?
The, theoretical, right of a state to declare a federal law void, or legally invalid.
What is nullification?
Bicameral legislature
What is a legislative body with two chambers?
John Marshall
What Chief Justice served during significant expansion of federal power in the 1800s
No power to tax No power to regulate commerce No executive to implement laws No judicial system No coercive power over states
What ways were the Articles of Confederation insufficient?
The problem of factions
What is the topic of Fed. 10?
Federal laws that the US states must implement without additional federal funding, such as the infamous No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
What is an unfunded mandate?
The Electoral College
What is the indirect method by which the US elects its president is called?
Modern Supreme Court (Chief Justice) that rolled back federal authority in cases like US v Lopez
What is the Rehnquist Court
Commerce Clause
What clause of the Constitution has allowed for great government expansion into the regulation of products and services?
Articles of the Confederation
What was the US's first constitution that was unable to overcome collective action problems among the states?
Power to tax Borrow money Establish courts Charter banks Spend money for general welfare
What is overlapping/concurrent powers of state and national government?
Federalist 51's main argument.
What is the idea that the new US government must have proper checks and balances between the different branches and agencies
This ruling narrowed the scope of national power in favor of states’ rights and confirmed that slaves were property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
A system of government, according to Rauch, that moderates easily inflamed social issues (protest politics) by allowing independent state action.
Federalism.