Foundational Documents
This document solved the issues of the Articles of Confederation
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This compromise decided how enslaved individuals would be represented in government.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
This is a sharing of power between state and federal governments.
What is federalism?
What document, signed in 1776, declares our desire to be a free nation?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The clause means the federal law will take precedent over state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This document was supported by Anti-Federalist to protect the rights of the people.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This compromise solved the debate between small and large states.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This is what is happening when power is taken from the federal government and given to the states.
What is devolution?
An agreement in which the government protects the natural rights of the people.
What is Social Contract Theory?
The idea that wealthy individuals have the most influence on government.
What is the Elitist theory?
This document claims that separation of powers and checks and balances are necessary for government to not become tyrannical.
What is Federalist 51?
Congress's commerce clause was limited in this Supreme Court case.
What is U.S. v. Lopez?
This form of financial aid gives states the most discretion in choosing how to spend it.
What is a block grant?
They believed a large republic was best to protect individual freedoms.
What is a federalist?
The supreme court ruling a law passed by Congress to be unconstitutional is an example of this.
What is checks and balances?
This document claims that a large, strong republic is necessary to control factions.
What is Federalist 10?
This clause was used to support the ruling of McCulloch v. Maryland.
What is the Necessary & Proper Clause?
Taxes are an example of this.
What is a concurrent power?
The idea that power in government is derived from the poeple.
What is popular sovereignty?
This is the division of powers between different branches of government.
What is Separation of Powers?
The supremacy clause would concern the author of this document.
What is Brutus 1?
These are the articles of the constitution, in order.
What is Legislative, Executive, Judicial, States Relations, Amending, Supremacy Clause, and Ratification?
Federalism is best supported by this part of the constitution.
What is the 10th amendment?
This event demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
In this system of government, power is concentrated in one central government.
What is unitary government?