2.1
These were the first ten amendments.
What are the Bill of Rights?
What is the Executive Branch?
These powers are the specific authorities explicitly granted to a government branch or the federal government by a constitution or foundational legal document
What are expressed powers?
What are the 27 Amendments?
This branch was formed under Article I.
What is the Legislative Branch?
These powers are exercised by a government that are not explicitly written in a constitution or founding document, but are reasonably assumed to flow from expressed powers.
What are implied powers?
This is why the Articles of Confederation failed.
What is not enough power to the federal government?
Democracy like in Athens no longer work for the US because of this process not being possible for the US in the size it currently is in.
What is we can’t all go to Washington D.C. to vote?
Nullification is the idea that states can do this.
What is that states had the right to nullify, or reject, a law passed by the federal government if they believed that law to be unfair or unconstitutional?
These were grievances the Declaration of Independence spoke against the king.
What are Imprisoning people without trial by jury, Britain made it difficult for the colonists to participate in the lawmaking process, conducting unfair trials in Great Britain against colonists, requiring colonists to provide housing for the British troops stationed in America?
These were powers of the state government.
What is creating public schools and traffic laws?
Shared: creating courts and borrowing money
Federalism is defined as this in connection to the governments power?
What is split between national and state/local governments?