Values and Ideals
This is a belief that you're born with certain privileges that no one, including government, can take away.
Natural rights
This democracy emphasizes broad activism by the people in government and public demonstrations.
Participatory democracy
This was the first constitution of the United States. It failed.
Articles of Confederation
This concept describes how power is distributed and shared betwen the federal and state governments.
Federalism
This is the most powerful person in the House of Representatives and 2nd in line after the President.
The Speaker of the House
Declaration of Independence
This democracy recognizes activism by nongovernmental interest groups who lobby government for specific policies.
Pluralist democracy
Shays' Rebellion
This amendment in the Constitution describes how powers not given to the federal government are reserved by the states and the people.
10th Amendment
A filibuster
This ideal reflects that power in the U.S. is ultimately in the hands of the people.
Popular sovereignty
This democracy emphasizes limited participation by people in politics and civil society and more power to fewer people and institutions.
Elitist democracy
In this compromise, states agreed to form a United States Congress in which states are represented equally in the Senate and proportionally to the state population in the House of Representatives.
The Great Compromise
The necessary and proper clause gives this branch of government broad power in writing laws.
Congress or the legislative branch
This presidential power is meaningless unless there is a 2/3 vote by the Senate to ratify it.
Negotiating a treaty.
This is a type of economic system values freedom and competition.
Free market economics or capitalism
This historical essay written by James Madison justifed republicanism and representative government as a way to limit the "mischiefs of faction."
Federalist No. 10
This compromise dealt with whether or not to count the enslaved population within the states for representation in Congress.
Three-Fifths Compromise
This 1819 landmark Supreme Court case declared Congress had implied powers to create a Bank of the United States and it established supremacy of the Constitution and federal laws over state laws.
McCulloch v. Maryland
Shaw v. Reno was a Supreme Court case in 1993 declared that this type of gerrymandering was unconstitutional
Racial gerrymandering
This concept describes the idea that when people join a governed society, they give up some freedoms in return for protection and safety from the government.
Social contract
Brutus No. 1 was an essay that represented this group of Americans who believed that power should lie more in state governments rather than in the federal government.
Anti-federalists
When the Constitution was ratified, it said the importation of slaves to the U.S. could not be banned by Congress for this many years. The compromise satisfied the Southern slave states.
20 years
In United States v. Lopez (1995), Congress tried convincing the Supreme Court that it could use this clause in Article I, Section 8 to regulate gun possession in public schools because guns are part of the economy.
The Commerce Clause
This model illustrates the relationship between interest groups, Congress, and the bureaucracy to form public policies.
Iron Triangle
Instead of a direct democratic government, the Constitution requires that the federal government provide this type of government, which has elected representatives and a protection of rights.
Republican form of government
This person drafted the U.S. Constituton and is known as the Father of the U.S. Constitution
James Madison
The number of amendments in the U.S. Constitution
27
The enumerated powers of Congress are in this Article and Section of the U.S. Constitution
Article I, Section 8
Chuck Schumer