What is a collective action problem relating to the exploitation of a communal resources. Possible solutions include privatization and public/gov regulation?
100
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?
100
The "Great Compromise" at the constitutional convention
What plan bridged the differences between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan?
100
Confirmed implied powers and supremacy of national law
What is McCulloch v Maryland
100
Oligarchy
Aristotle called this rule by the few motivated by self-interest?
200
Free rider
Someone who receives a collective benefit without contributing?
200
Allowed Congress to collect income tax and expanded their powers into new policy areas
The significance of the 16th amendment?
200
The topics of the first three articles of the Constitution.
1. Legislative Branch established and powers
2. Executive branch
3. Juducial branch
200
Gibbons v Ogden
Case that expanded federal power--concerned Congress' power to regulate commerce between the states
200
Enlightenment era thinker that inspired Jefferson with his ideas about social contract theory
Who is John Locke?
300
Contracts, constitutions, laws, norms of behavoir
What are institutions and
What is ways to overcome collective action problems?
300
The, theoretical, right of a state to declare a federal law void, or legally invalid.
What is nullification?
300
Bicameral legislature
What is a legislative body with two chambers?
300
John Marshall
Chief Justice that served during significant expansion of federal power in the 1800s
300
No power to tax
No power to regulate commerce
No executive to implement laws
No judicial system
No coercive power over states
Problems with the Articles of Confederation included?
400
The problem of factions
What is the topic of Fed. 10?
400
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?
400
The Electoral College
The indirect method by which the US elects its president is called?
400
Modern Supreme Court (Chief Justice) that rolled back federal authority in cases like US v Lopez
Rehnquist Court
400
Dr. David Adler
Who is the Director of the Andrus Center at Boise State who lectured on Constitution Day.
500
Articles of the Confederation
What was the US's first constitution that was unable to overcome collective action problems among the states?
500
Power to tax
Borrow money
Establish courts
Charter banks
Spend money for general welfare
What is overlapping/concurrent powers of state and national government?
500
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
500
This ruling narrowed the scope of national power in favor of states’ rights and confirmed that slaves were property.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
500
Asian Carp
The greatest threat to our country since the civil war (according to Constitution USA's Peter Segel)?