The Constitution
The formula to determine the number of electoral votes each state gets in the electoral college.
What is the # of senators plus the # of representatives in the house for that state?
These are 3 weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation
What are no national currency, no ability to tax, no standing army, no strong executive, no economic powers, no regulation of commerce, etc
This is the name for when government power is ceded from the national government down to the states.
What is devolution?
This enlightenment thinker is credited with the idea of "Separation of Powers"
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
New Federalism was spearheaded under these Presidents
Who are Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon?
The body from which all tax-bills must originate.
What is the House of Representatives?
This enlightenment thinker was quoted heavily in the Declaration of Independence
Who is John Locke?
Reserved powers come from this Amendment to the Constitution.
What is the 10th Amendment?
This enlightenment thinker is famous for his strong advocacy for a written constitution.
Who is William Blackstone?
Judicial Review comes from this.
What is Marbury v Madison?
The topic of Article IV in the Constitution
What is relationships among states/the Full Faith and Credit clause?
According to James Madison, a government can not get rid of factions without also getting rid of this.
What is liberty?
These are 3 implied powers given to the Federal government through the Necessary and Proper Clause.
What are building highways, establishing air force, national bank, time zones, etc.
These were the 3 topics that the founders at the Constitutional convention could not agree upon.
What are representation, slavery, and voting?
McColluch v Maryland largely centered around the debate on if the government could do this.
What is create a national bank?
These are 5 enumerated powers given to congress
The author of Brutus No. 1 was worried about these two clauses of the Constitution.
What are the Supremacy Clause and the Necessary and Proper/Elastic Clause?
These are the two competing views/types of Federalism
What are Dual and Cooperative Federalism, or what are Layer and Marble Cake Federalism?
These are the 3 authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay?
Gibbons v Ogden primarily dealt with this clause of the Constitution.
What is the Commerce Clause?
These are 4 protections granted in the Constitution prior to the addition of the Bill of Rights.
What are protections from ex post facto laws, bills of attainder, suspension of habeus corpus, religious qualifications, trial by jury in criminal cases, and strict evidence for treason?
These are two things Madison argues in Federalist 51 that will protect the government explained in the Constitution from becoming a tyranny.
What are checks and balances, separation of powers, bicameral legislature, or representative democracy/republic?
These types of grants are favored by State and local governments.
What are Block Grants?
James Madison wanted to create a framework for a government that placed as much power as possible out of the hands of this group.
Who is the majority/tyranny of the majority?
This is a program or service that the federal government requires a State to do or implement without any financial help.
What is an unfunded mandate?