The ability of Congress to make all laws that are necessary to govern.
What is the Elastic Clause?
100
Where the US government gets its power from.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
100
The very first framework for the US government, developed by Pilgrims on a ship.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
Where the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative Powers are divided equally.
What is the Separation of Powers?
200
Making money is under the Congress' jurisdiction due the clause...
What is an example of the Proper and Necessary Clauses?
200
The people that represent the states and vote for the President and the Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
200
The document that announced that America was free from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
Congress may exercise the powers that the Constitution grants it.
What are the Enumerated Powers?
300
Necessary and proper clauses are another name for...
What is the Elastic Clause also known as?
300
The basic principle that the government is restricted in what they may, or may not do.
What is Limited Government?
300
The document that sets the laws and principles for the government.
What is the US Constitution?
300
Making money is expressly denied to who...
What is one power expressly denies to the States?
400
The Congress' powers to make laws.
What is the Necessary & Proper Clauses?
400
The powers shared by both the National and State government.
What are Concurrent Powers?
400
The agreement upon the the amount of representatives per state.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
The powers not granted to the National Government or the State Government, but not expressly denied to the States.
What are the Reserved Powers?
500
The clause that states that federal law is the the "supreme law of the land".
What is the Supremacy Clause?
500
The system overlapping the powers of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the other branches.
What is Checks and Balances?
500
The set of laws intended to punish the colonists.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
500
The National Government may not violate the Bill of Rights because of...
The Reserved powers prevent the National Government from violating the Bill Of Rights...