federalism
What is federalism
Federalism describes a system of government where some power belongs to the national government, and some belongs to the state government
What is the bill of rights?
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the constitution. It spells out the Americans rights in relation to their government, a guarantees civil rights and liberties so the individual like freedom, press, and religion.
What is checks and balances?
The checks and balances system provides each branch of the government with individual powers to check the others branches and prevent anyone branch from becoming too powerful
What is gerrymandering?
The practice dividing or arranging a territorial unit into elections district and ways that gives one political party and unfair advantage in the election
What are each branches of government?
The legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch.
how are the federal and state powers and responsible distributed, shared, and limited by the United States Constitution?
well, the constitution grants broad powers to the federal government. They are limited by the 10th amendment, which states that the powers not neglected to the United States by Constitution, nor prohibited by its to the United States, our reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people.
What documents in the English history establish a tradition of declarations of rights?
The Magna Carta in 1215 the despotic king John of England, was confronted by an assembly of Baron demanding that traditional rights be recognized, written down, confirmed with the royal steel, and sent to each country to read to all Freeman.
Why is the system checks and balances in place?
This was to make sure no one branch would be too powerful, and it created the separation of power
where did the term gerrymandering come from?
Mass government, Elbridge, Gary
What does the executive branch do?
Consist of a president, his or her advisor in various departments and agencies. This branch is responsible for enforcing laws of the land.
How are federal and state powers and responsibilities distributed?
Exclusive powers are those powers reserved to the federal government or the states. Concurrent powers are powers shared by the federal government and the states.
Who first proposed a bill of rights and why was this proposal rejected?
George Mason of Virginia and Elbridge, Gerry, Massachusetts Proposed that the constitution be pre-faced with the bill of rights on September 12, 1787
which branch has the ability to veto a law?
Executive branch
And gerrymandering how often does redistricting happen?
Every 10 years
What two houses make up a Congress?
The house of representatives in the Senate.
why will federalism continue to be a source of controversy in United States?
Many people are concerned about the cost of new federal programs and about whether decisions concerning these new programs should be made at the state or national level. Others are concerned that the governments is amusing responsibilities that should be left to the individuals.
Why did the anti-federalist want the bill rights?
The anti-federalist opposition ratify the constitution was a powerful force in the origin of the bow of rights to protect Americans civil liberties.
Who created the checks and balances?
Montesquieu and William Blackstone
What is sweetheart gerrymandering?
It is designed to protect any imcumbents of both parties
I’m How many members make up the US Senate?
The Senate has 100 members two from each state who are elected to serve for term of six years.
How has the relative power of the federal versus the state governments changed over time?
States regulated within their borders and the federal government regulated national and international issues. But since the Civil War in the 1860s, the federal government power has overlapped and inner wind with states power.
what does the Bill of Rights not apply to?
It does not apply to the state governments, such as protections were instead provided by the constitution of each state.
What amendment has checks and balances?
article one and this is because it describes the design of legislative branch of US government the Congress.
Partison Gerrymandering
Is unjust if one person equals one person they should vote receive that level of representation under the equal protection of the law constitution.
What is the judicial branch?
In charge of deciding the meaning of laws how to apply them to real situations, and whether a law breaks the real constitution.