Early America
This Massachusetts uprising was a primary reason for fixing the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Most of the work in Congress, holding hearings, conducting research, and amending legislation, happens in these committees.
What are standing committees?
This Article of the United States Constitution describes the powers and structure of the executive branch.
What is Article II?
This concept allows the Supreme Court to strike down the acts of the other two branches if deemed unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
Splitting the US government into three distinct branches with different responsibilities is known as this.
What is Separation of Powers?
The British law required colonists to buy special paper for official documents, causing widespread anger and resistance.
What is the Stamp Act?
This type of bill dealing with money/revenue must originate in the House of Representatives.
What are Revenue/Tax/Money bills?
They can serve two four-year terms based on the 22nd Amendment
What is the maximum number of terms a president can serve?
The extent of a court's authority, both in geographical area and in subject matter, is known as this.
What is Jurisdiction?
Levying taxes is an example of this type of power shared by both federal and state governments simultaneously
What is a Concurrent Power?
One of the three main authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
The Great Compromise established this type of legislature, dividing Congress into two houses.
What is a bicameral legislature?
This term describes the entire system of departments, agencies, and federal workers that make up the executive branch.
What is bureaucracy?
Name one of the key reasons why the Supreme Court might choose to grant a writ of certiorari and hear a case on appeal
Conflicting lower court rulings
Major constitutional question
Broad public importance
Federal government involvement
To propose an amendment to the Constitution, this fraction of the vote is required in both houses of Congress.
What is a 2/3 (two-thirds) vote?
This group, credited with the success of the Bill of Rights, believed the federal government would be too powerful without it
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
These powers are explicitly delegated to Congress in the Constitution, including lawmaking, budgeting, defense, and currency.
What are Expressed / Enumerated / Delegated powers?
To be "impeached" means this - not necessarily removed from office or found guilty.
What is being formally charged with a crime/misconduct?
Under the Constitution, this branch was originally intended by the framers to be the nation's primary "center of power"
What is Congress / the Legislative Branch?
Found at the end of Article 1, Section 8, this clause forms the basis for Congress's implied powers.
What is the Elastic Clause?
Delegates at this meeting chose George Washington to lead the Continental Army and agreed to draft the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
If the House and Senate pass different versions of the same bill, this specific step, this committee, is used to iron out the differences
What is a Conference Committee?
Article II details this line of succession, which states who assumes office if the president resigns, dies, or is incapacitated
What is the Presidential Line of Succession?
The Framers aimed for a court system independent of political pressures, commonly known by this term
What is an Independent Judiciary?
Name one key advantage of Federalism in the United States government system.
Encouraging local innovation.
Allowing states to act as laboratories of democracy.
Responsiveness to local needs.