Preamble
The government’s efforts to protect the quality of the air you breathe and the water you drink
Promote the General Welfare
The ___________ government has grown in size and power since the foundation of the country. Anti-Feds would be saying I told you so!
Federal Government
Supported the Constitution and the ratification process
Federalists
Bonus: What was the ratification process?
President Obama could not seek re-election for president again because of this amendment
22nd
Expressed
Bonus:
Name 2 Expressed powers
“The law, in both its content and its administration, must be reasonable, fair, and impartial.”
Establish Justice
Federal, Concurrent or State Power:
Claim private property for public use
Concurrent
Bonus: Constitutional term for this process?
Felt the Constitution gave too much power to the federal government and did not have enough checks and balances built within.
Anti-Federalists
Bonus: What group of 85 essays were written by the Federalists to rebut such claims by the Anti-Federalists.
Presidential Succession Amendment- If he dies then.....
25th
Legislative(Congress)
Name the part of the Preamble this scenario falls under:
Creating of Homeland Security and intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan after the terrorist attack on 9/11
Provide for the Common Defense
Federal, Concurrent, or State:
Lay and Collect Taxes
Concurrent
Demanded a mention of God in the Constitution and for states to be able to create their own money.
Anti-Federlists
Protects you from unreasonable and illegal searches and seizures
4th
The Constitution limits the executive branch from declaring war by giving that power to
Legislative Branch(Congress)
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship…oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” (President John F. Kennedy)
“Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
Clause that makes it clear that national law always supersedes state laws
Supremacy Clause- Article 6 Section 2
Anti-Federalists favored adding a Bill of Rights for what purpose?
It would protect individual citizens’ freedoms
List all 5 Freedoms listed in the 1st Amendment
Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition, Religion
Process by which federal judges are nominated and approved
Nominated by the President on the advice and consent of the Senate
Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
What is posterity?
Future Generations
Constitutional powers which come into play when a state creates public policy
Reserved Powers of the 10th Amendment
"The regular distribution of power into distinct departments… the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election: these are… powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained."
Whose viewpoint does this excerpt reflect?
Federalists
Describe the process for Formally Amending the Constitution
Proposed by 2/3rd Congress-(House and Senate)
Ratified by 3/4th of State Legislatures
Often referred to as “the Elastic Clause” it allows congress to stretch its powers to carry out their expressed powers
Necessary and Proper Clause
Article 1 Section 8 Clause 18