Articles of Confederation
One of the many weaknesses of the Articles
What is: no ability to raise a military, state unanimity, inability to squash rebellion, unicameral legislature, lack of participation
The two main issues raised at the Constitutional Convention
What are representation and power?
The definition of Federalism
What is the sharing of power between state and national governments?
The two main clauses that Brutus has a problem with in the Constitution
What are the necessary and proper clause and the supremacy clause?
The main argument of this case
What is Congress does not have the power to create certain laws affecting states?
Under the articles this governing body was the only one to levy and collect taxes
What are the states?
This plan called for separation of of national powers (Legislative, executive and judicial branches),
bicameral legislature (House of Reps and Senate) and
representation to be based on state population
What is the Virginia Plan?
The branch of US Government that is responsible of making laws
What is legislative?
The main fear of Publius in Federalist 10
What are rise of factions?
Main argument for the Federal Government in this case
What is Congress has the power to enforce this law by the commerce clause of the US Constitution?
The main reason for Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts
What is the inability of the state to generate enough money to pay debts.
This plan called for equal representation in congress instead of state population
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The executive branch of government has this responsibility when it comes to laws in the United States
What is enforce laws?
The main cause of a factions according to Madison
What is poverty and inequality?
What PRINCIPLE of our government was violated by the United States (NOT CLAUSE)
What is federalism?
By creating a new constitution and not adopting the articles, this governing body became even stronger. A great fear for Anti-Federalists
What is the national government?
All of the aspects found under the Great Compromise
What are:
Bicameral legislature (2 houses of Congress)
Senate = Equal representation
House = Population representation
The process of making changes to the US Constitution
What is an amendment?
The only way to combat factions
What is with other factions?
The amendment that the state of Texas claims the United States Congress is violating with the Gun Free School Zones Act
What is the 10th Amendment?
This is an alliance of independent states
What is a confederacy?
The unfortunate compromise of the Constitutional Convention that made slavery an even more lucrative commodity
What is the 3/5's Compromise?
Constitutional provision declaring that the constitution and all national laws and treaties are the supreme law of the land
What is the supremacy clause?
The main fear of Brutus
What is the government would act in a tyrannical manner?
The law that congress created that was unconstitutional
What is the Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990?