Foundations of Government
Natural rights that government cannot take away?
What is life, liberty, and property?
Who wrote the Federalist Papers
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention that settled issues of state representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
The sharing of power between the national government and the states.
What is federalism?
The process through which the Supreme Court applies fundamental rights in the Bill of Rights to the states on a case-by-case basis.
What is selective incorporation?
This document sets out the fundamental principles of governance and establishes the institutions of a government.
What is the Constitution?
This Federalist Paper argues that separation of powers and federalism will prevent tyranny.
What is Federalist No. 51?
The plan of government calling for a three-branch government with a bicameral legislature, where more populous states would have more representation in Congress.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The constitutional provision declaring that the Constitution and all national laws and treaties are the supreme law of the land.
What is the supremacy clause?
What is the return of more authority to state or local governments.
What is devolution?
The theory that the government’s right to rule comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
This argued that the Constitution gave too much power to the national government.
What is Brutus No. 1
The plan of government that provided for a unicameral legislature with equal votes for each state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The clause that grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate business and commercial activity.
What is the commerce clause?
The system where power is divided between the national and state governments.
What is federal system?
The right of people detained by the government to know the charges against them.
What is the writ of habeas corpus
The set of beliefs, customs, traditions, and values that Americans share.
What is American political culture?
The agreement reached by delegates at the Constitutional Convention that a slave would count as three-fifths of a person in calculating a state’s representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The language in Article I, Section 8, granting Congress the powers necessary to carry out its enumerated powers.
What is the necessary and proper or elastic clause?
The form of American federalism in which the states and the national government work together to shape public policy.
What is cooperative federalism?
The process of influencing the actions and policies of government
What is politics
This person argued in Federalist No. 10 that the dangers of faction can be mitigated by a large republic and republican government.
Who is James Madison?
The agreement that Congress could not restrict the slave trade until 1808.
What is the Compromise on Importation?
The constitutional provision that reserves powers not delegated to the national government to the states and the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
The constitutional clause requiring states to recognize the public acts, records, and civil court proceedings from another state.
What is the full faith and credit clause?