Core Concepts
The movement of people from country areas to city areas.
What is urbanization?
To approve of something.
What is to ratify?
Protects against unlawful search and seizure.
What is the 4th Amendment?
According to this principle, people have the right to alter or abolish their government.
What is popular sovereignty?
The power to interpret the Constitution.
What is judicial review?
Poor, urban neighborhoods.
What are slums?
Favored a strong national government.
Who are the Federalists?
Protects against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th Amendment?
Safeguards against abuses of power.
What are checks and balances?
This court case gave the USSC the power to interpret the US Constitution and made its interpretation binding.
What is Marbury v Madison?
The spread of suburbs away from the core city.
What is suburban sprawl?
This collection of essays was published to persuade the public toward the Constitution.
What is/are the Federalist Papers?
Protects against self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This lower House of Congress allots representation based on population.
What is the House of Representatives?
To ask for a decision to be reviewed by a higher court.
What is appeal?
The number of people per unit area of land.
What is population density?
This was the pseudonym used by the authors of the Federalist Papers.
What is Publius?
Protects the right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This clause gives congress the power to execute all measures "necessary and proper" to carry out its duties.
What is the elastic clause?
This method of amending a state constitution involves collection signatures on a petition and voting on said petition.
What is a constitutional initiative?
The spreading of people over an area of land.
What is population distribution?
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These three men wrote "The Federalist Papers."
Who are Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison?
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Name all (yes all) 5 rights protected by the 1st Amendment.
What are the right to
freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and freedom of petition?
The complex system of electing a president.
What is the electoral college?
The system of transit lines, roads, bridges and tunnels used to travel.
What is infrastructure?