More Misc. Terms
a design of government in which each branch has powers that can prevent the other branches from making policy
What are Checks and Balances?
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
a committee at the Constitutional Convention that worked out the compromise on representation
What is the Grand Committee?
What is Brutus No.1?
Established judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison
the institution responsible for making laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
a theory of democracy that holds that citizen membership in groups is the key to political power
What is pluralist democracy?
A plan of government that provided for a unicameral legislature with equal votes for each state
What is the New Jersey Plan?
An essay composed by James Madison which argues that liberty is safest in a large republic because many factions exist.
What is Federalist 10?
States cannot interfere with federal government when it uses its implied powers under the necessary and proper clause
What is McCulloch v. Maryland
powers not given to the national government, which are retained by the states and the people
What are reserved powers?
A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency.
What is Unitary Government?
a plan of government calling for a three-branch government with a bicameral legislature, where more populous states would have more representation in Congress
What is the Virginia Plan?
Antifederalist Paper arguing that the country was too large to be governed as a republic and that the Constitution gave too much power to the national government.
What is Brutus No.1?
helped define the concept of federalism in US constitutional law
the right of people detained by the government to know the charges against them
What is writ of habeas corpus?
One-house legislature
What is Unicameral?
a meeting attended by state delegates in 1787 to fix the Articles of Confederation
What is the Constitutional Convention?
an essay in which Madison argues that the dangers of faction can be mitigated by a large republic and republican government
What is Federalist No.10?
Congress had exceeded its constitutional authority
What is United States v. Lopez
constitutional clause requiring states to recognize the public acts, records, and civil court proceedings from another state
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
laws punishing people for acts that were not crimes at the time they were committed
What are ex post facto laws?
an agreement reached by delegates at the Constitutional Convention that a slave would count as three-fifths of a person in calculating a state's representation
an essay in which Madison argues that separation of powers and federalism will prevent tyranny
What is Federalist No.51?
Allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden