The Enlightenment
The enlightenment thinker who believed in the natural rights of Life, Liberty, and Property.
Who is John Locke?
The length of years in a senator's term according to the Constitution.
What is six years?
The name of powers that State governments are left with according to the 10th amendment of the Constitution.
What are Reserved Powers?
The power/role the President has to lead the military and armed forces of the United States.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
These are the groups that Madison is afraid are a threat to democracy in Federalist 10.
What are factions?
Baron de Montesquieu's idea that inspired the structure of the three different branches in our government.
What is Separation of Powers?
What is no suspension of habeus corpus, no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, or evidence for treason?
This is what established the power of the Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress, the President, and States as unconstitutional.
This is one of the advisory bodies in the Executive Branch that help the President make decisions in specific areas.
What are the OMB, NSC, CEA, the Cabinet, etc.?
Jefferson changed the word property to this when quoting Locke in the Declaration of Independence.
What is the pursuit of happiness?
The idea proposed by enlightenment thinkers that people give up some freedoms in exchange for protection and security by the government.
What is the Social Contract?
This is the event that led many to believe that a new Constitution was needed for the states.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The implied power granted to the Federal government by the decision in McColluch v Maryland.
What is the creation of a national bank?
This is what happens when the President does nothing with a bill passed by congress for 10 days and congress is adjourned.
What is a pocket veto?
This is what Hamilton argues for in Federalist 70.
What is a strong, single executive (President)?
The thinker who advocated for Lex Rex, where the law is king and that legal codes should not be subject to the whims of rulers.
Who is William Blackstone?
The three major compromises agreed upon at the Constitutional Convention.
What are the Connecticut Compromise (Great Compromise), the Slave Trade Compromise, and the 3/5s Compromise?
What are no president, no congress, no ability to tax, etc...?
These are the three constitutional requirements for being President of the United States.
What are 35 years of age, 14 years residing in the US, and natural born citizenship?
This is the clause of the Constitution that the author of Brutus No 1 feared would grant too much power to the Federal Government.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause? (Elastic Clause)
The names of three different famous works (books) by enlightenment thinkers.
What are Leviathan (Hobbes), Two Treatises on Civil Government (Locke), The Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu), Common Law (Blackstone), and The Social Contract (Rousseau)?
This is the topic outlined in Article V of the Constitution.
What is Amending the Constitution?
The types of aid that are favored by State governments as they give them more freedom in how to spend the money.
This is the law that requires the President to notify congress when sending troops overseas, as well as get approval within 60 days lest the troops have to be recalled.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
In Federalist 51, Madison argues that the different bodies in government need to have rival and opposite interests that limit each others power, which are referred to by this name.
What are Checks and Balances?