Antebellum America
Want to change the world? Engage in this kind of cause.
What is reform?
Publius divided! financial whiz championed an implied powers theory of federal power; this diminutive Virginian took the opposite stance.
Who are Hamilton and Madison?
The Founders framed a government in this kind of written document.
What is the Constitution?
The chief executive.
What is the president?
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This event created the Second Party System?
What is the election of Andrew Jackson?
Careful — this term means the division of state and national authority, NOT some party.
What is federalism?
This French philosopher influenced Madison's conception of the separation of powers and checks and balances.
Who is Montesquieu?
This is race-based now.
What is slavery?
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
Who is Publius?
If you can't agree on an answer, call in this Great Compromiser.
Who is Henry Clay?
Centralization of power was this author's primary fear.
Who is Brutus?
The Declaration of Independence was influenced by this Enlightenment philosopher.
Who is John Locke?
All white men can vote.
What is universal white man suffrage?
"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Enforcement of the Indian Removal Act led to a conflict between this jurist and this president.
Who are Marshall and Jackson?
If, as No. 47 says, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may just be pronounced the very definition of tyranny,” then this is the anti-tyrannical constitutional device?
What is the separation of powers/functions?
This document codifies the historical protections the American Revolution fought for.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This doctrine established in Marbury v. Madison.
What is judicial review?
“[I]f I were asked… to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that [American] people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.”
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
What are tariffs, internal improvements, and a Second Bank of the US.
What are "necessary and proper"?
Publius said this legislative feature would help fight faction.
What is representation?
Picking seeds from cotton is easier now.
What is the cotton gin?
"we have gloried to count your Washington and your Jefferson our great teachers"
Who is Chief John Ross?