The Constitution
This is the primary purpose of a constitution in a government system.
What is outlining the fundamental laws and structure of the government?
Federal and state governments collaborating to solve a problem is known as this.
Those who did not support the ratification of the Constitution were known as this.
Who are Anti-Federalists?
Citizens cannot be persecuted based on their religious affiliation. Is that a Right, Responsibility? or Both?
This is the primary purpose of government according to the Declaration of Independence.
What is securing the inalienable rights of the people?
This President was originally known as "the Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
The modern approach to federalism where programs and authority are mixed among national, state, and local governments is known as this.
What is Marble Cake Federalism?
This is a form of government where people participate directly in making government decisions instead of choosing representatives to do this for them.
What is Direct Democracy?
Obeying the Law is a Right, Responsibility, or Both.
What is a Responsibility?
What is Consent of the Governed?
The Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise) solved this problem with ratifying the constitution.
What is the method of representation in the Legislative Branch?
Establishing Public Schools is this kind of power.
What is a Reserved Power?
This theory claims that political power rests in the hands of groups of people.
What is Pluralist theory?
Voting is a Right, a Responsibility, or Both.
What is Both?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced the inclusion of Natural Rights in the Declaration of Independece.
Who is John Locke?
These powers are not mentioned in the constitution and therefore retained by the states.
What are Reserved Powers?
Levying and Collecting Taxes is this kind of power.
What is Concurrent Power?
This is an institutional arrangement that creates two relatively autonomous levels of government, each possessing the capacity to act directly on the people with authority granted by the national constitution.
What is Federalism?
These are the 5 Concepts of Democracy.
What is:
Worth of the Individual
Equality of All Persons
Majority Rule, Minority Rights
Necessity of Compromise
Individual Freedom
Supreme and absolute power within a territory defines this.
What is Sovereignty?
This many states must ratify a proposed amendment for it to become a part of the Constitution.
What are 3/4 of the states? (38)
The Privileges and Immunities Clause prohibits this.
What are States making unreasonable distinctions between residents?
The statement in Article VI of the Constitution that federal law is superior to laws passed by state legislatures is this clause.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
A Citizen is defines as this.
What is a member of a nation who owes allegiance to it and is entitled to certain rights?
These four elements are required to be considered a nation.
What are:
Population
Territory
Government
Sovereignty?