Declaration of Independence
To secure/protect our rights
What is the purpose of government?
1. both the national government and states could coin money
2. The national government could not tax citizens directly, only request it from states
3. States placed trade restrictions on one another
4. The national government could not raise an army, only request that states send soldiers
What are some problems under the Articles of Confederation?
What is the Virginia Plan?
The division of power between the federal government and states.
What is federalism?
says that the U.S. Constitution, federal laws, and treaties are the “supreme law of the land.”
What is the supremacy clause?
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
What are our natural/unalienable rights?
A rebellion of farmers who were angry about not getting paid for fighting in the Revolutionary War, and who owed taxes.
What is Shays' Rebellion
This plan called for a single house Congress, with equal representation for each state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Powers given only to the federal government.
What are exclusive powers?
Congress doesn’t only have the powers listed word-for-word in the Constitution.
It can also make laws that are implied if they help carry out its listed powers
What is the necessary and proper clause?
Influenced Jefferson in the DOI
Who is John Locke?
The group that supported ratification of the Constitution
What are the Federalists?
This was an agreement made that Congress would be made up of two houses; in one house representation would be based on population, in the other house each state would get an equal vote.
What is the Great Compromise?
Powers only given to states
What are reserved powers?
Elastic clause
What is the necessary and proper clause?
We give up the right to rule ourselves in exchange for an orderly, functioning society.
What is the social contract theory?
Who are the anti federalists?
This is a compromise that said 3 of every 5 enslaved people would count as a person towards representation in Congress.
Powers shared by both the national government and the states.
What are concurrent powers?
Supreme Court in this case ruled that the Federal Government could create a bank, and that the state of Maryland could NOT tax it.
What is Maryland v. McCulloch
1. all men are created equal
2. limited government on the basis of consent
3. right and duty to revolution
What are the three part of the social contract theory?
John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton wrote these series of essays.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This is the year that the slave trade could be ended by Congress.
What is 1808?
Returning power back to the states during the Reagan era.
What is devolution?
this clause gives Congress the power to regulate trade with:
What is the commerce clause?