Federalism
What is Federalism?
The idea that authority is divided between the federal and the state governments.
When a new President is sworn into office he/she takes an oath of office. What does the President swear he/she will do during their time in office.
The president swears to faithfully execute all Federal laws according to the U.S. Constitution.
Congress consists of what two government houses
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives
Federal Courts were established by what governmental body?
What is Congress
What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights?
The purpose is to protect individual liberties and guarantee fair procedures for the people.
What is the name of the clause in the Constitution that says the Constitution and the laws and treaties are the supreme law of the land.
The Supremacy Clause
Please list at least five Presidential powers.
The power to appoint/remove federal officers, choose the executive cabinet, appoint judges to the federal bench, sign treaties, sign executive orders, veto bills, pardon federal crimes, and act as Commander-in-Chief of the military during war.
Name an agency that Congress created to carry out its enumerated powers of Taxing
What is the IRS
What important legal document established the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, and the Presidency?
What is the U.S. Constitution
The Bill of Rights protections apply to states through what amendment?
The Fourteenth Amendment
What is the rule for Federalism under the Supremacy Clause.
Valid federal law prevails over conflicting or inconsistent state law.
What is the Senate
What four organizations did Congress create to carry out its duty of raising armed forces?
What is the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Marines.
What is the name of power which allow federal courts to test federal government action against what is written in the U. S. Constitution?
What is Judicial Review
List five freedoms or rights under the First Amendment.
Freedom of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceful assembly, and freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances.
Georgia passes a law regulating the requirements for obtaining a Georgia driver's license. A citizen argues that only the federal government should be allowed to make driver's license rules. Is the citizen correct? Why or why not?
No. Georgia traditionally handles the issuing of driver's licenses and not the federal government. Those powers not given to the federal government are retained by the states.
If a President is impeached is he/or she then removed? Explain.
No. The Senate must then decide by two-thirds vote to remove the President.
Name Congress' enumerated powers.
Taxing, spending, borrowing, regulating interstate commerce, coining money, and raising the armed forces.
What is the name of the Supreme court case that created Judicial Review?
What is Marbury v. Madison
Name five exceptions to the Fourth Amendment.
Consent, Emergency circumstances, Search Incident to a Lawful Arrest, Plain View, Automobile exception.
Congress passes a valid federal law requiring a certain safety feature on commercial trucks traveling between states. Georgia later passes a law saying: Commercial trucks operating in Georgia do not have to follow the federal safety requirement.”
Which law controls? Why?
The federal law controls because Congress can regulate interstate commerce which includes commercial trucks passing across state lines.
The President may fire any executive branch official except for what exception.
Unless removal is limited or restricted by federal statute.
What is the purpose of the Necessary and Proper clause?
It allows Congress to pass laws and create agencies to carry out its enumerated powers.
What are the three requirements to bring a case into federal court and have standing?
What is an injury/harm, causation for the injury/harm, and a remedy.
Name at least three rights that are protected in the Fifth Amendment.
It protects against self-incrimination, it protects against double jeopardy or being charged for the same crime twice after you have been acquitted, and it protects against the government taking your private property without giving you just compensation.