Vocabulary
The process through which a society settles its conflicts. People gain and exercise control of government to set and achieve goals they are participating in.
What is politics?
The words of the Declaration of Independence reflect this.
What is Locke's philosophy of inalienable rights?
In this system, there are lawful restrictions on a government's power.
What is a Constitutional System?
This document outlines the plans for creating, operating, and limiting government.
What is the Constitution?
This clause in Article VI of the Constitution declares that the national laws shall be the supreme law of the land and will take precedence over any laws of the states.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The structure employed by society to organize itself and allocate authority.
What is government?
A form of government in which citizens meet and directly decide on issues of governing. The form is impractical except at the local level.
What is Democracy?
A constitutional proposal for a strengthened Congress but one in which each state would have a single vote, thus granting a small state the same legislative power as a larger state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Under this plan large states would have more representatives in both chambers of Congress.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This was a major obstacle to ratification of the Constitution.
What is the Constitution did not have a Bill of Rights?
A government that is subject to strict limits on its lawful uses of power and, hence, on its ability to deprive people of their liberty.
What is limited government?
This is an agreement between the people and the government in which the people give up some of their liberties to protect other liberties.
What is Social Contract?
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had the power to do this.
What is amend the Articles of Confederation?
This mechanism of the Constitution giving each branch some oversight and control over the other branches thereby preventing domination. Hint: Think about the 6 Big Ideas of the Constitution.
What is Checks and Balances?
The government created under the Articles of confederation was this.
What is a republic and a confederation?
The powers granted to the states under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
What are Reserved Powers?
An economic system based on the idea that government should interfere with economic transactions as little as possible
What is the free-market system?
Name an example of checks and balances.
1. Approval of Treaties
2. The veto
3. The impeachment process
4. judicial review
This clause in the Constitution ensures that judicial decrees and contracts made in one state will be binding and enforceable in another.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
Under the original Constitution, Congress could not ban the slave trade until this year.
What is 1808?
This involves deciding what can reasonably be believed and then using the information to reach a thoughtful conclusion.
What is Critical Thinking?
This is where government get its legitimacy.
Hint: 3 things
What is social contract, divine right, and rule of the strongest?
This person believed that liberty was possible only where people as a whole rule directly through lawmaking and wrote social contract.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The Federalist Papers were written by these three people.
Who is Madison, Hamilton, and Jay?
This Federalist Paper shows how the Constitution protected the rights of people through the separation of power in separate branches of government.
What is Federalist #51?