Before the Constitution
Group that opposed the ratification of the constitution
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Each branch of government has power to limit the power of the other two branches of government.
What is checks and balances?
The most serious danger to a republic, according to James Madison in Federalist #10
What are factions?
This theory suggests that the wealthiest individuals control policy.
What is the elite theory?
These are two important Federalists.
Examples may include Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, George Washington, etc.
This document stated the colonists' rationale to protect their natural rights by instituting a new government.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The word to describe a structure for a legislature with two chambers.
What is bicameral?
A series of essays written in support of ratifying the constitution
What are the Federalist Papers?
Resolved the issue of counting enslaved people into the population for apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
In this theory of democracy, individual people play a role in politics--for example, protest.
What is participatory democracy?
This document created strong states governments and a weak, ineffective central government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Referring to a division of power between the federal government and the states.
What is federalism?
The Supreme Court used the supremacy clause to decide this case, which involved banking.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
A resolution of the New Jersey and Virginia Plans creating a bicameral Congress with equal representation in the Senate and apportionment based on population in the House of Representatives
What is the Connecticut "Great" Compromise?
In general, this was the major demographic difference between Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
What is Federalists typically lived in urban areas and tended to be educated or elite, whereas Anti-Federalists tended to live in rural areas and be farmers?
This Massachussets event highlighted the need for a national military.
What is Shay's Rebellion
Political definition of granting power to an independent executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch.
What is separation of powers?
Voting rights, requirements, and eligibility were left to these governmental agents by the founders.
What are the states?
Political parties and interest groups taking action in politics is an example of this theory.
What is the pluralist theory?
What is Brutus no. 1?
What is the republic would morph into power being held by a corrupt few, and the people’s voices can better be heard by representatives who personally known them?
In the Articles of Confederation, this many votes was needed to pass any law, part of a unicameral system of legislature.
What is 9/13?
These three Amendments were passed in the context of the Civil War, taking away states' autonomy and giving more power to the federal government.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This Supreme Court case used the commerce clause to decide a dispute between two boat-owners, strengthening the power of the federal government.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
Theory suggests that citizens give consent to be governed
What is the social contract theory?
What quote is the basis of Federalist no. 51?
What is "if men were angels, no government would be necessary"