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The current Speaker of the House.
Who is Mike Johnson?
It gives Congress the power to make laws that help fulfill its enumerated powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, no prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people"
What is the 10th Amendment?
It's the constitutional principle that holds its power in the first line of the Constitution.
What is Popular Sovereignty
Currently, she represents the 28th District in the House of Representatives, which covers the geographic region of La Canada.
Who is Judy Chu?
It's the form of democracy that emphasizes broad individual participation.
What is Participatory Democracy?
It led to the creation of a Bicameral Legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
In U.S v. Lopez the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Government did not have the power under this clause to create a School Gun Free Zone law.
What is the Commerce Clause?
When the State and Federal Governments both have the power, for example, the ability to tax.
What is a concurrent power?
Madison argued in Federalist 39 that the Constitution satisfies these requirements because "persons administering it be appointed, either directly or indirectly, by the people, and that they hold appointments by a specific tenure, and or good behavior".
What is Republicanism?
This founder famously changed the sentence in the Declaration of Independence from "We hold these truths" to be "sacred and undeniable" to "self-evident"
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Life, liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What are Natural Rights?
It is the number of states it takes to ratify a constitutional amendment?
What is 3/4ths of the State?
It's America's original sin and a stain on our entire nation; it had to do with the apportionment of representatives for each state.
What is the 3/5th clause?
In this Federalist paper, Madison writes, "the proposed Constitution..... is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal Constitution, but a composition of both".
What is Federalist 39?
A Federalist essay by James Madison arguing for a system of checks and balances, famously writing "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"
What is Federalist 51?
This is the only President in history to be elected by the House of Representatives because no candidate received a majority in the Electoral College.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness"
What is the Social Contract?
The number of voting members in Congress
What is 535?
In McCulloch V. Maryland, 1819 the supreme court found that Maryland violated this clause when it tried to tax the national bank. The Chief Justice wrote, "the power to tax is the power to destroy".
What is the Supremacy Clause?
It's a type of funding from the Federal government to State Governments that outlines specific guidelines on how the money should be spent.
What is a categorical grant?
The belief that the government should not be all-powerful, in the Constitution, a great representation of this is the addition of the Bill of Rights.
What is limited Government?
She famously wrote to her husband before the Constitutional Convention, urging him to "remember the ladies."
Who is Abigail Adams
It's when participation is limited to a small group. The original Electoral College is a great example of this.
What is an elite democracy?
The number of electoral votes a candidate needs to win the Presidency in 2028!
What is 270?
Mr. Bernstein has not talked about this yet, but it lives in the 14th Amendment and has been the basis for much of the Civil Rights Legislation of the 20th Century.
What is the equal protection clause?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a good example of this because the Federal Government required states to follow it, but did not provide any resources.
What is an unfunded mandate?
This Federalist paper argued for the creation of a large republic to cure the ills of factions.
What is Federalist 10?
A signer of the Declaration of Independence who was shot and killed in a duel shortly after the signing. His last known signature sold for $722,500 at auction.
Who is Button Gwinett?
It's when there is group-based activism such as political parties and interest groups.
What is pluralist democracy?