BABY AMERICA
This government couldn't collect taxes and its only accomplishment was the Northwest Ordinances.
What is The Articles of Confederation?
What is original jurisdiction?
This man argued class was an essential similarity for substantial representation, which the legislature outlined in the American Constitution is too small to accommodate.
Who is Federal Farmer?
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.
Who is James Madison (Federalist 51)?
Jefferson said he didn't have any books open when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, but he was certainly thinking of...
What is John Locke's Two Treatises on Government?
This man was an advocate of strict construction in the debate over the first national bank.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is a large republic (size & representation)?
David, you know, looked small and insignificant when going to meet Goliath, but looked larger when he had slain his foe… Oppression, organized as ours is, will appear invincible up to the very hour of its fall.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
In this agreement, we give up the power of self-preservation and preservation of others according to the law of nature to the extent necessary, and the power to punish crimes committed against the law of nature entirely.
What is the Social Contract?
A request for the Supreme Court to review case, which requires four of nine Justices.
What is a writ of certiorari?
Brutus compared the Supreme Court, as outlined in the US Constitution, to what element of British government?
What is kingship?
Merely a concrete test of the underlying principles of the great republic is the Negro Problem, and the spiritual striving of the freedmen's sons is the travail of souls whose burden is almost beyond the measure of their strength, but who bear it in the name of an historic race, in the name of this the land of their fathers' fathers, and in the name of human opportunity.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
The principle of Republicanism, according to John Adams.
What is virtue?
Marbury was requesting this when he took his case before the court.
What is a writ of mandamus?
This man argued good governance over large republics is not possible because they are too complex, devolve into despotism, and have too many factions.
Who is Brutus?
We are not asked in this case to say whether we think this law is unwise, or even asinine. We are asked to hold that it violates the United States Constitution.
Who is Justice Potter Stewart? (Griswold dissenter)
This is the power of making exceptions to the law where necessary for the good of the people.
What is prerogative?
The process of appointing Supreme Court justices.
What is nomination by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate?
This Anti-Federalist famously voted for the Constitution.
Who is Melancton Smith?
You and I, my dear Friend, have been sent into life, at a time when the greatest law-givers of antiquity would have wished to have lived. How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government more than of air, soil, or climate, for themselves or their children. When! Before the present epoch, had three millions of people full power and a fair opportunity to form and establish the wisest and happiest government that human wisdom can contrive? I hope you will avail yourself and your country of that extensive learning and indefatigable industry which you possess, to assist her in the formations of the happiest governments, and the best character of a great People.
Who is John Adams?