Vocabulary
The 3 Branches
Politics
Federalism
The Constitution
100

A form of Government in which the people are the ultimate political authority.

What is Democracy?

100

EXECUTIVE:

Powers the president claims, but are not stated in the Constitution.

What are Inherent Powers?

100

Formed representatives of Interest Groups.

What are lobbyists?

100

A type of Federalism in which National and state powers are separate, but overlapping. 

What is Layer-Cake Federalism?

100

The amount of times in which the Constitution was amended?

What is 17?

200

A political interest group.

What is a faction?

200

These two systems devised in the U.S. Constitution pertaining to the forming of U.S. Government exist for the purpose of preventing one element or branch of the government from acquiring too much power over the others.

What are Checks and Balances and the Seperation of Powers?

200

Money given directly to a candidate VS money given to party committees.

Hard money VS soft money.

200

A type of federalism where national and state governments are sovereign in their own district spheres. Clear distinctions between the two types of governments.

What is Dual Federalism?

200

The beginning of the written U.S. Constitution. States "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity to ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." 

What is the Preamble?

300

Loyalists to Britain in America.

What are "Tories"?

300

LEGISLATIVE:

A legislative power that lies solely within the House of Rep. Must have the majority of a 2/3 vote in the Senate. The crimes and charges include treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.

What is Impeachment?

300

the name for the majority of the popular vote.

What is Popular Mandate?

300

Emphasizes that the responsibilities between national and state gov. overlap. (AKA: Marble Cake Federalism)

What is Cooperative Federalism?

300

A flexible part of the Constitution in which Department of Defense, Department of Energy,the Department of Education, and other similar departments are founded in. (AKA: The Elastic Clause)

What is the "necessary and proper clause"?

400

A document that was written by English nobles to put limitations on the powers of the monarch. It highlighted 3 important principals:

- the king could not levy taxes w/out consent from his councilmen

- Right to fair trial by jury and due process

- the king is under the law

What is the Magna Carta?

400

JUDICIAL:

How many judges in the Supreme Court must decide to agree to take on a case (trial) for it to be heard in the Supreme Court?

What is 4/9?

400

A type of presidential election only held if no candidate wins the majority vote.

What is "runoff primary"?

400

More citizens favor support toward a federal government is seen from both parties today than would have been deemed acceptable 100 years ago. This is called...

What is New Federalism?

400

Historians often refer to  to this as the most penetrating commentary ever written on the constitution.

What are the Federalist Papers?

500

A group of men who met in September - October in response to the Intolerable Acts. Included: Samuel Adams, John Adams, George Washington, and Patrick Henry.

What is the First Continental Congress?

500

LEGISLATIVE:

Suspending Habeas Corpus (the right to trial by judge and jury), Passing ex-post-facto laws (prevent the arrest of a person who committed a crime before the crime was deemed illegal), illegally acquiring money from the treasury, and giving anyone a title of nobility are all powers that which governmental power does NOT have?

What is Congress?

500

Writing and publication process that focuses on image, personality, and perceptions of candidates.

What is Horse-race Journalism?

500

When state and federal governments work together to solve problems, it is an example of what type of federalism?

what is cooperative federalism?

500

the pen name of the authors of the Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison (who was particularly interested in acquiring minority rights), and John Jay?

What is Publius?

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