Founding Fathers Era
Natural rights championed by John Locke
What are life, liberty and property?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Make laws, declare war and collect taxes.
What is the Legislative branch?
Powers shared by both the federal government and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
The Court Case that set up judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The idea that decisions and actions are made via consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
Made up of wealthy, educated, land owners.
Who are the Federalists?
The branch tasked with carrying out the laws of the Constitution.
Grants that offer larger chunks of money not meant for specific purposes.
What are block grants?
The court case dealing with the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990.
What is U.S. v. Lopez?
The type of democracy characterized by behaviors such as voting, jury duty, walk-outs/protests/sit-ins.
What is participatory democracy?
To pass legislation under the Articles of Confederation, how many votes did they need?
Congress can override this with 2/3 vote in both houses.
What is a presidential veto?
Powers that are not delegated to the federal government that is left to the states.
What are reserved powers?
A landmark case dealing with the necessary and proper clause.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
A paper arguing about smaller republics due to diversity of voters in too big a republic.
What is Brutus 1?
A structural check on selecting the president adopted during the Constitution.
What is the electoral college?
The power given to the Supreme Court following Marbury v. Madison that gives authority to decide the constitutionality of laws.
What is judicial review?
The clause that gives Congress powers beyond the written word of the Constitution that helps carry out the functions of Congress.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause OR What is the elastic clause?
The clause that was misused by Congress to make the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990.
What is the commerce clause?
Characterized by delegation of powers in central and localized governments.
What is the federal system?
2/3 vote needed in Congress and 3/4 vote needed at the state level.
What is the amendment process?
One way that the Judicial branch can check the other branches?
What is judicial review?
The process of the federal government collecting taxes and distributing some of the money back to the states.
What is revenue sharing or What is cooperative federalism?
What is the supremacy clause?