Shared Values
What is a Representative Government?
The people elect an official to represent their views and opinions in office.
What were the Articles of Confederation and who created it?
Continental congress made the first written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain
How were slaves counted for the purpose of taxation and representations
What is the clause name and what does it mean
3/5 clause
three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
What were the 2 opinions on the creation of the National Bank?
Federalists believed that congress has implied power to establish a bank with a national currency
Democratic-republicans believed that congress did not have the power to create and bank because it was not considered "necessary"
Judicial Review
Gives the Supreme Court and federal courts the authority to interpret the Constitution.
This is an example of which shared value
Police officers, Presidents and celebrities are expected to follow the same laws and regular citizens
Rule of Law
What was Shays Rebellion?
Farmers in western Massachusetts who couldn’t pay their taxes faced jail and seizure of their land. The state government refused to help. Farmers rebelled by closing courts and releasing people from jail.
What was the Great Compromise?
The Great Compromise was an agreement made among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that the American government would have two houses in Congress: the Senate where each state has two Senators, and the House of Representatives where each state has a number of Representatives based on population.
What was the Whisky rebellion?
Federalists supported a whiskey tax as a form of consistent revenue for the US government. Farmers attacked and destroyed homes of tax collectors as a way to protest the tax.
National Supremacy
Federal law overpowers/is above state laws
People have the right to govern themselves
What were the weaknesses of the AOC?
Weak central Government
Congress had no power to enforce its laws.
Congress had no power to tax.
Congress had no power to regulate trade.
What were the 2 opinions regarding how many delegates each state should have in congress?
1-Each state sends an equal number
2-States will send delegates based on population. Larger states have more representation
What were the beliefs and leader of the Federalist AND democratic republican Party?
Alexander Hamilton- Strong central government, Congress had "implied powers"
Thomas Jefferson-Strong State government, congress only had the power to do what is specifically stated in the constitution
What are the branches of government AND what checks and balances?
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
It provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
Gives entrepreneurs the freedom to pursue profit by creating outputs that are more valuable than the inputs they use up, and free to fail and go out of business if they do not.
What were the consequences of Shays Rebellion?
The AOC Congress issued a resolution calling for a convention of states to revise or fix the existing government under the AOC. Created a new constitution at the Constitutional Convention
What were the 2 opinions regarding how slaves should be counted towards population?
Southerners wanted as many representatives in the House of Representatives as possible. They argued that slaves should be counted the same as any other person in determining representation.
Northerners believed that slaves should only be counted as property so that they could be taxed like any other property
What were "Anti-federalists"
The Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the 1787 U.S. Constitution because they feared that the new national government would be too powerful and thus threaten individual liberties, given the absence of a bill of rights.
What was the significance of Marbury v. Madison?
Power of the Courts to determine whether a law or government action follows the Constitution
It established judicial review- greatly expanded the power of the Supreme Court by establishing its right to overturn acts of Congress
Give an example of Limited Government
Government power is restricted
What were the opinions and compromise of the Slave Trade?
To help business in the North, northern delegates wanted to give Congress broad power to control trade between the states and other countries.
South worried that Congress might try to tax the crops the South traded with other countries. Southerners also worried that Congress would use its power over trade to end the slave trade
The Founding Fathers believed that compromises on slavery were the price for the support of southern delegates for a strong central government
What were the 2 opinions of the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Federalists supported- it affects only foreigners who are plotting against us, and has no impact (effect) on an American citizen
Dem-Rep opposed- " The Alien Act exercises a power not delegated (given) to the federal government. The Sedition Act exercises a power specifically and positively forbidden by one of the amendments "
What was the significance of the McCulloch v. Maryland supreme court case?