The Constitution Does
The founders "would say that we no longer live under ______ _______ ________ ___________?"
" the Constitution they wrote"
Can a wise and humane law be unconstitutional?
Yes
True or false. The federal government tells us where we can smoke?
True
_____________ ____________.
"Post-Constitutional America"
The Constitution serves "the same function as the "what?
The British royal family, "it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power."
Can a bad law be constitutional?
Yes
The Civil War resulted from what?
"the suspicion that the North meant to use the power of the Union to destroy the sovereignty of the Southern states...."
The chief business of the federal government has become what, according to the author?
Taking and redistributing our wealth
Ratifying the Constitution meant (or intended to mean) that the 13 states yielded (or relinquished, gave up) little of their ______?
Sovereignty
The author refers to our present system as________-
___________ ___________.
Post-Constitutional America
Madison wrote that the powers of the federal government would be ________ and __________.
Few and defined
We are less free, more heavily taxed, and worse governed than?
Our ancestors under British rule
The Constitution lists how many specific legislative powers of Congress?
18
Name an entitlement program that the delegated powers of Congress (listed in the Constitution) doesn't cover.
Social Security
Medicaid
Medicare
Federal aid to Education
"In the beginning, the states were _______ and _______.
Independent and Sovereign
Our rights come from where?
God
What are the two things that Constitution does?
1. It delegates certain enumerated powers to the Federal government
2.It separates those powers among the three branches
The author defines freedom as?
"a careful division of power that prevents power from becoming concentrated and unlimited."
Hamilton envisioned the Supreme Court as what on Congress?
"a check on Congress"
National defense has become a ________
____________ _____________.
Hidden entitlement program