SCOTUS/Foundational Documents
The papers that were written in support of ratifying the new consitution
What is the federalist papers?
Americas first constitution was called what?
What are the articles of confederation?
Referring to a division of power between the federal government and the states
What is federalism?
The first 10 amendments of the consitution are called and what do they protect?
What are the Bill of Rights and civil liberties?
a legislature with two separate chambers
what is a bi-cameral legislature?
What clause helped to rule in favor of McCulloch in McCulloch v Maryland?
What is the necessary and proper clause?
Group that opposed the ratification of the new consitution?
What are the anti-federalists?
Type of democracy where citizens elect "representatives" to make policy on their behalf
What is a representative democracy or indirect democray?
The amendment process is laid out in what article of the consitution?
What is Article V (5)
voting rights, requirements, and eligibility were left to these governmental agents by the founders.
the most serious danger to a republic according to James Madison and most others at the constitutional convention
what are factions?
The type of government that the US hade before the constitution?
What is a confederation?
Each branch of government has power to limit the power of the other two branches of government
What is checks and balances?
The clause that is mentioned in Article I section 8?
What is the necessary and proper clause or elastic clause?
Stated the colonists rationale to protect their natural rights by instituting a new government
What is the declaration of independence?
What is the main idea of Federalist paper 10?
What is a large republic?
Who was the main author of the declaration of independence?
Who is thomas jefferson?
The supremacy clasue is found where in the constitution?
Article 6 paragraph 2
The main author of the constitution or the father of the constitution?
Who is James Madison
Political definition of granting power to an independent executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch.
what is the seperation of powers?
The clause that allowed for gun free zones on school grounds that prompted the US v Lopez case?
What is the commerce clause?
Exposed the division between rural poor and urban elite, and highlighted the need for a national military
What is shay's rebellion
2 examples of a concurent power?
what is taxing, borrowing, establishing courts, establishing law enforcement agencies, questions of federal/sttae authority are decided by courts
One of the methods of proposal for a fromal amendment
What is proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures
Theory suggests that citizens give consent to be governed
What is the social contract theory?