Key Documents
A list of rights that all citizens have in their daily lives.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A clause that declares that Federal law is the highest law of the land and state laws cannot surpass it.
The oldest method to get a candidate nominated
What is self announcement?
The idea of a balance of power between the federal government and the states.
What is Federalism?
What is Straight Ticket voting?
The first document that tried to form the US government but would be replaced by the Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A Clause in which all states must honor all other states documents just as a driver's license.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
A political party that is considered to be more liberal then the Democrats.
What is the Green Party?
A group of people that opposed the idea of a strong national government and were in favor of strong state governments.
What are Anti Federalists?
Someone who would be consider to not be a liberal nor a conservative but in the middle of the left and right wings.
What is a moderate?
A document that was ratified to declare independence from King George the Third/Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Powers that branches have that although not directly stated are a result of expressed powers.
What are Implied Powers?
A role political parties take to look at the other political parties and their actions
What is watchdog?
A group of indebted farmers that rebelled against the government while the Articles of confederations was active.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
A poll that is taken over a period of time to measure public support over a topic.
What is a tracking poll?
A document drafted by James Madison warning about how the interests of many different groups could damage the United States government.
What is Federalist Ten?
A type of payment in which states can opt into a program to receive money.
What is a Project Grant?
The total amount of electoral votes that a candidate could get.
What is five hundred and forty?
A Compromise that declared that each slave would be worth 3/5's of a person.
What is the Three Fifths Compromise?
A person that would be more likely to believe in traditional values and reject change.
What is a conservative?
A document drafted by Anti Federalists stating that a federal government would be too bad and could lead to the citizens being ruled by elites.
What is Brutus One?
A type of payment where the government gives money to a state for a broad purpose.
What is a Block Grant?
A candidate selection in which the top 2 candidates enter a second candidate nomination to determine which of the two will be nominated for the party
What is a run off primary?
A compromise that saw the legislative branch be turned into a bicameral congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This group would believe that we should be able to judge what we do with our own morals.
What is a Liberal?