Democratic Ideals and Principles
This principle divides power between the national government and state governments.
What is federalism?
The idea of preventing any one branch from gaining too much power
What is separation of powers?
This document announced the colonies’ separation from Great Britain in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court used this clause to uphold Congress’s power to create a national bank.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This compromise created a House based on population and a Senate with equal state representation.
What is the Connecticut (or Great) Compromise?
This idea means that government gets its authority from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
The constitutional principles that are upheld when Congress overrides a presidential veto.
What are checks and balances?
This first national framework created a weak central government with no independent executive.
What is the Articles of Confederation
These federal grants give states money for a broad purpose and more flexibility in how to spend it.
What are block grants?
This is Mr. Montgomery's favorite band.
What is Every Time I Die?
This term describes a system in which people elect representatives to make policy decisions.
What is representative democracy?
This was added to the Constitution primarily to satisfy Anti-Federalist concerns about individual liberties
What is the he Bill of Rights?
The Declaration of Independence argues that governments get their just powers from this source.
What is the consent of the governed?
These federal grants provide money for a specific purpose and usually include detailed rules for how it must be used.
What are categorical grants?
This term describes powers specifically listed in the Constitution and given to the national government.
What are enumerated (or expressed) powers?
The idea that people form governments to protect their rights, and may change a government that fails to do so, is known by this term.
What is the social contract?
This constitutional system gives states a role in choosing the president, rather than relying solely on a nationwide popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?
This document argued that a large republic could help control the effects of factions.
What is Federalist No. 10?
In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Court strengthened federal power by interpreting this clause broadly.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This agreement allowed Congress to regulate the international slave trade after 1808 while protecting it from federal interference before then.
What is the Slave Trade Compromiose?
A person argues that the government cannot legitimately take away basic rights because people possess them simply by being human. This idea reflects these rights.
What are natural rights?
The constitutional clauses that Brutus cites as evidence of excessive federal power.
What are the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Supremacy Clause?
This essay explained how checks and balances could limit government power.
What is Federalist No. 51?
This federal requirement directs states or local governments to take an action without providing enough money to cover the cost.
What is an unfunded mandate?
These powers are shared by the national and state governments, such as the power to tax.
What are concurrent powers?