Federalism
What is the name of a legislative body that has two houses?
What is bicameral legislature?
Briefly explain Fed 51
What are checks and balances?
What are the first ten amendments called?
What are the Bill of Rights?
What was the agreement in the Great Compromise?
What is a Bicameral legislature?; one house by population other has equal representation
Briefly explain Social Contract Theory
Answers will vary (relationship between the people and their government)
What are exclusive powers of the national government called?
What are enumerated powers?
What were the failures of the articles of confederation? (list 3)
Answers will vary. (ex: unable to collect taxes, lack of military and navy funding, no president to make decisions, no judiciary, no trade policy, weak foreign policy)
Explain the 7th Amendment
Answers will vary (Trial by jury)
Explain Tinker v. Des Moines
Answers will vary (First Amendment Rights are not given up at the school door)
Briefly explain the Electoral College
Answers will vary
What is an example of "Checks and balances" as seen in the U.S. political system?
What is answers may vary?
(ex: Judicial review; POTUS can vetos; Congress can overrule a veto)
Which articles of the Constitution address ratifying and amending it?
What are articles 5 and 7?
Explain the 10th Amendment
Answers will vary (power to the states)
Explain Wisconsin v. Yoder
Answers will vary (free exercise rights)
What is the symbol for Coorperative Federalism?
What is Marble Cake Federalism?
What is the money given to states that can be spent without stipulation?
What are block grants?
What are the four parts of the Declaration of Independence?
What is the why colonists have the right to rebel, Social Contract Theory, list of complaints, and declaring independence?
Who was granted citizenship by the 14th amendment?
who is people born or naturalized in the United States?
Explain Shaw v. Reno
Answers will vary (racial gerrymandering)
What president promoted New Federalism/Devolution?
What is President Reagan?
How does the constitutional allocation of power between the national and state governments affect society?
Answers will vary? (how the differences between states make things less efficient)
Name and briefly explain the seven articles of the Constitution and the amendments in the Bill of Rights
Answers will vary
Name the first 10 Amendments
1.Freedom of speech, press, assembly, petition, religion.2.Right to bear arms.3.Quartering of Soldiers.4.No unreasonable search and seizures.5.Right to no self-incrimination or double jeopardy.6.Right to speedy trial.7.Right to jury trial.8.No cruel or unusual punishments.9. Rights to the people.10.Rights to the states.
Explain US v. Lopez
Answers will vary (interpretation of the Commerce Clause)
What is the reason the Magna Carta was created?
What is King John I's negotiations with his barons?