Intro to Gov
Rule of a few powerful people.
What is an oligarchy?
Compromise about how enslaved people would be counted for representation and taxation.
What are the Three-Fifths Compromise?
What is the elastic clause (or necessary and proper clause)?
Powers shared by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
Loose union of independent or sovereign states.
What is a confederacy?
Philosopher who advocated for governments that promote the General Will.
Who is Rousseau?
Portion of the Constitution that sets up the three branches and based powers of the government.
What are the Seven Articles?
Sums of money given to state or local governments for specific purposes
What are federal grants?
Maintaining order, providing leadership, providing national security, and providing public services.
What are the functions of a government?
Philosopher who believed that people are naturally bad and individuals must give up their individual liberty for the security of government. "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Amendment that ended slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Court case that stated when the national government and state government come into conflict the national government is supreme.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
A group of people with shared identity through a quality like language, religion, ethnicity, history, etc.
What is a nation?
Name for the final compromise made about representation at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
Power of the court to determine whether a government action is unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
When Congress passes laws that allow the national government to assume responsibility for a state government function.
What is preemption?
Four essential features of a state.
What is population, territory, sovereignty, and government.
Legal document in the UK (1688) that set clear limits on the monarchy including the monarchs ruled with the "consent" of parliament.
What are the English Bill of Rights
Amendment that allowed people to vote at 18 years old.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Term for the concept that states cannot unreasonably discriminate against residents of another US State.
What is Privileges and Immunities?