SCOTUS + Documents
This 1787 framework replaced a system that lacked taxation and enforcement powers.
What is the Constitution?
This philosopher’s theory of natural rights directly influenced Jefferson’s writing in the Declaration.
Who is John Locke?
This compromise counted enslaved persons as three-fifths for representation purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This level of government is responsible for conducting national elections, coining money, and declaring war.
What is the federal (national) government?
This 1620 agreement established self-government in the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This colonial legislature, established in 1619, was the first representative assembly in British North America.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
This clause makes federal law supreme over state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This type of federalism describes a clear division between state and national powers.
What is dual federalism?
This Supreme Court case required states to provide counsel to defendants who cannot afford an attorney.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that government power should be divided into three branches.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This Federalist author argued that a large republic would control factions.
Who is James Madison?
This amendment outlines the process for presidential succession.
What is the Twenty-Fifth Amendment?
This event in American history led to the development of fiscal federalism.
What is the New Deal?
This case incorporated the right to keep and bear arms against the states, extending a protection originally aimed at limiting only the federal government.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
This English document, signed in 1215, limited the king’s power and established the principle of rule of law.
What is Magna Carta?
This compromise prevented Congress from banning the slave trade until 1808.
What is the Slave Trade Compromise?
This clause requires states to honor other states’ public acts and judicial decisions.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
This theory is one dual federalism is heavily based upon.
What is the Circle Theory?
After a state redraws its congressional districts to create a majority–minority district, several voters challenge the map, arguing that race was the predominant factor in drawing district lines and that the oddly shaped district cannot survive strict scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause. This claim most directly reflects which Supreme Court decision?
What is Shaw v. Reno?
This British policy of “salutary neglect” allowed colonies to develop which governing practice?
What is self-government?
In a debate over whether Congress may charter a national cryptocurrency bank not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, supporters argue that the framers intentionally gave Congress flexibility to carry out its enumerated powers. Their argument relies on which constitutional provision adopted in 1787?
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
A citizen files suit claiming a state law violates a right found in the Bill of Rights. The state argues that the amendment restricts only the national government, not the states. Resolving this dispute would require applying which constitutional doctrine?
What is selective incorporation?
This case, very integrated with the principals of federalism, resulted in the ruling that the Affordable Care Act was constitutional.
What is the National Federation of Independent Business v Sebelius (2012)?