Foundational Documents
The document responsible for declaring independence from Great Britain during the revolutionary war
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The court case that established how the national government has supremacy over the states in executing its expressed powers over the national bank
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Freedom of Speech, Press, Assembly, Religion, etc.
What is the First Amendment?
This type of federalism emphasizes the working together aspect of state and federal governments.
What is Cooperative Federalism?
This prevents the national government from becoming too powerful by splitting up power into multiple branches with powers
What is Separation of Powers?
What is Checks and Balances?
The document responsible for establishing the government that we now know of today.
What is the Constitution
The court case that held that the federal government had no right to intervene in the case of a person who brought a gun onto campus.
What is United States v. Lopez?
Right to Bear Arms
What is the Second Amendment?
This Democracy emphasizes vote by the people
What is Participatory Democracy?
The Judicial Branch has the right to declare this of laws created by the legislative branch.
What is declare unconstitutional?
What is Judicial Review?
The counter argument to Publius which argued how the new government created by the Constitution would be tyrannical
What is Brutus?
What is Brutus No. 1?
This clause was used as rationale for both court cases yet was accepted for one case and rejected for the other
What is the Commerce Clause?
Right to privacy or rather known as the right to no unreasonable searches or seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This Democracy emphasizes how an elected few with high amounts of resources make decisions on behalf of the population
What is Elite Democracy?
This article establishes that the national government is more powerful than the state government
What is Article VI (6)?
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The document responsible for the first government of the United States that gave the states more power than the federal government
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This clause allows congress to do what it needs in order for it to execute its enumerated powers
What is the necessary and proper clause?
What is the elastic clause?
The amendment which grants states powers not enumerated to the national government
What is the 10th Amendment?
This Democracy emphasizes how interest groups can influence or impact public policy
What is Pluralist Democracy?
This article establishes how states or congress can change the constitution.
What is Article V (5)?
What is the Amendment Process?
The document created by Publius which argued in favor of ratifying the Constitution
What is the Federalist Papers?
What is Federalist No. 10?
The act that congress tried to use as rationale for intervening in the court case involving Alfonso Lopez.
What is the Gun Free School Zones Act?
This amendment is one granted to anyone who enters the court system for criminal cases.
What is Amendment 5,6,7,8?
No Self Incrimination (5)
Right to trial by jury (6)
Right to lawsuit (7)
No cruel or unusual punishment (8)
The national government is supreme in its own sphere and the state government is supreme in its own sphere. For example, the national government can control interstate commerce, but states have the right to control commerce within their borders.
What is Dual Federalism?
Also technically Supremacy Clause
The executive branch can deny the legislative branches bills without signing off on it by simply ignoring it during an adjournment of congress.
What is a pocket veto?