Constitutional Foundations
This document created a weak national government that lacked an effective power to raise revenue.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This amendment reserves powers not delegated to the national government to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
The Senate must approve certain presidential appointments, illustrating this principle.
What are checks and balances?
This type of federal grant gives states relatively broad discretion over how funds are spent within a general policy area.
What is a block grant?
This model of democracy emphasizes competition among interest groups seeking to influence public policy.
What is pluralist democracy?
This article of the Constitution establishes the formal amendment process.
What is Article V?
The power to tax is held by both the national and state governments, making it this type of power.
What is a concurrent power?
The House brings impeachment charges, while this chamber conducts the impeachment trial.
What is the Senate?
Federal money restricted to a specifically defined program, such as special education, is this type of grant.
What is a categorical grant?
In Federalist No. 10, Madison argued that these are undesirable but inevitable in a free society.
What are factions?
Shays’ Rebellion strengthened the argument that the United States needed this.
What is a stronger national government?
Differences among states in policies such as health care or capital punishment illustrate this constitutional principle.
What is federalism?
A bureaucratic rule can be declared unconstitutional by this branch of government.
What is the judicial branch?
A federal requirement that states provide services without supplying sufficient money to pay for them is called this.
What is an unfunded mandate?
This Anti-Federalist essay argues that a large national republic will be too distant from the people.
What is Brutus No. 1?
The framers chose this form of government rather than direct democracy, allowing citizens to govern through elected officials.
What is a representative republic?
When federal and state law conflict, this constitutional clause establishes the priority of valid federal law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Washington’s warning against one department encroaching on another is addressed by distributing governmental authority through these two related constitutional principles.
What are separation of powers and checks and balances?
A state wants federal money but objects to federal control over exactly how it is spent. Which type of grant would the state most likely prefer?
What is a block grant?
Unlike pluralist theory, this theory argues that political power is concentrated in the hands of a relatively small minority.
What is elite theory?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What is the abolishment of Slavery?
What is the 24th Amendment?
What is no more poll taxes in federal elections?
What year was the 15th Amednment ratified?
When is 1870?
What is the 22nd amendment?
What is the presidential term limit?
In what year does the United States repeal prohibition/what amendment is it?
When is 1933 - Amendment #21