Purpose & Origins of Government
Government rules with the consent of the people
What is Democracy?
The first government of the United States, created by the Continental Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The amount of people the Senate can have per state.
What is two members?
The states required for ratification of the Constitution.
What is nine states?
Assumed powers given to state and national government.
What is inherent powers?
Author of the Separation of Powers and the Rights of the Individual.
Who is Montesquieu?
The national government could declare war and coin money, but it couldn't.
What is collecting taxes?
The current three branches of the US Government.
What is the legislative, executive, and judicial branch?
A two stage process plus a proposal and ratification to the US Constitution.
What is a formal amendment?
Allowed through the Necessary & Proper Clause (Elastic Clause).
What is Implied Powers?
People in a society enter an agreement with the government for safety/Rights.
What is the Social Contract Theory?
The Articles of Confederation Government had a president and a judiciary.
What is false?
The 55 delegates were generally wealthy and well-educated, and shared a desire.
What is a stronger national government?
This doesn't change documents, but instead government practices.
What is a informal amendment?
Due to the 10th Amendment, aren't listed in the Constitution.
What are State Powers?
Author of Religious Freedom, Natural Rights, State protecting Individual Rights, & Citizens rebelling against unjust governments.
Who is John Locke?
In 1786-1787, indebted farmers in Massachusetts, forced closed courts to stop foreclosures on their farms.
Who is Daniel Shays?
The President can do this when legislature makes laws.
What is veto?
What the Congress needs to propose a new amendment.
What is two-thirds of both the House of Representatives & the US Senate?
The Constitution and federal laws, treaties, as being the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The government isn't accountable to its people.
What is a dictatorship?
The biggest accomplishment of the Articles government creating a process for forming five new states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
In 1787, delegates met here planning only to revise the Articles, but instead wrote an entirely new Constitution.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
The states need this to ratify an amendment.
What is three-fourths of state approval?
Required to honor the Contracts & Court Proceedings.
What is the Full Faith & Credit Clause?