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How are duties and smuggling related?
Colonists smuggled goods to avoid paying duties.
Correlate the Great Compromise and population.
Determined the number of peeps in the House of Representatives. Fun fact: capped at 435.
Explain the difference between separation of powers and checks & balances.
Gov divided into parts v. one branch can restrict power of other branches.
Define precedent.
Judicial decisions made in past that directly influence judicial decisions in present.
Identify principle associated with the Mayflower Compact.
Self-government
Why were the colonists angry?
They were being taxed without having a say. Taxation without representation.
Purpose of Federalists papers.
Defend the U.S. Constitution.
Define supremacy clause.
Asserts the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land and therefore prevents conflict between federal and state.
What is a synonym for elastic clause?
Implied Powers
Identify principle associated with Common Sense.
Consent of Governed
Intolerable Acts, Common Sense, and the Continental Congresses
What are key events that led to American Independence?
Major criticism of the Articles of Confederation.
Weak central government.
Identify and explain the rights of the accused.
4, 5, 6, 8
Implied powers are like expressed powers but with more flexibility. Give examples of implied powers.
Taxes, armies, and naturalization decisions can be changed when society changes.
Identify the father of the U.S. Constitution.
James Madison
How did Locke influence Jefferson in the writing of the D of I?
natural rights and social contract
HUGE concern of the anti-federalists.
States and peeps would lose rights if central gov too powerful.
Identify and explain the minority amendments.
13, 14, 15, 19, 24, 26
Implied powers are like expressed powers but with more flexibility. Give examples of expressed powers.
Declare war, create post offices, borrow and coin money, and bankruptcy laws.
Writ requiring the accused to appear in court.
Habeas Corpus
Founding document that influenced the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in both state and federal constitutions.
English Bill of Rights
Explain how the U.S. Constitution is organized.
Preamble, Articles, and Amendments
Define federalism.
Gov divided into levels: federal, state, and local.
Identify 3 principles correlated with the Magna Carta.
Rule of law, due process, and limited government.
Explain the difference between absolute monarchy and constitutional monarchy.
Absolute monarchy has a single ruler with no plan of government and the representatives of a constitutional monarchy must follow a plan of government.