1.5 Vocabulary
the first constitution of the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation?
a series of essays written to oppose and defeat the proposed U.S. Constitution
What is Anti-Federalist Papers?
powers shared by the national, state, and/or local government
What are concurrent powers?
the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house
What is U.S. Congress?
the branch of government that interprets the laws made by the legislative branch
What is the judicial branch?
a system of government where power is located with the independent states and there is little power in the central government;
What is a confederation?
the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
the powers specifically named and assigned to the federal government or prohibited to be exercised by the states under the U.S. Constitution, also known as enumerated powers
What are delegated powers?
the highest court of the United States; it sits at the top of the federal court system
What is the Supreme Court?
the power of the legislative branch to print money (coins and bills) for use
What is coining money?
a meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 where delegates decided to throw out the Articles of Confederation and draft the Constitution
What is the Constitutional Convention?
a group of people in the early United States who favored the establishment of a strong national government and who worked for ratification of the U.S. Constitution
What is a Federalists?
to bring formal charges of wrongdoing against a public official (such as the U.S. President)
What is impeach?
the branch of government that creates laws
What is the legislative branch?
the power to hear appeals of cases which have been tried in lower courts
What is appellate jurisdiction?
something owed; such as money
What is debt?
the process of formally approving something;
What is ratification?
the power of Congress to pass all laws they deem necessary and proper for carrying out its enumerated powers (also known as implied powers)
What is the elastic clause?
powers not written in the U.S. Constitution but are necessary and proper in order for the federal government to carry out the expressed powers; Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 gives Congress the power to do what it deems “necessary and proper” to carry out the delegated powers
What are implied powers?
the branch of government that enforces the laws made by the legislative branch
What is the Executive branch?
an event when 2,000 Massachusetts farmers rebelled against land foreclosures and debt from the Revolutionary War
What is Shays’s Rebellion?
a group of people in the early United States who opposed ratification of the U.S. Constitution because they feared a strong national government and a lack of protection for individual rights
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
the powers specifically named and assigned to the federal government or prohibited to be exercised by the states under the U.S. Constitution, also known as delegated powers
What are enumerated powers?
the power of Congress to make laws they view as necessary and proper to carry out their enumerated powers; also known as the elastic clause
What is the necessary and proper clause?
the power of the U.S. President to choose members of his or her cabinet, ambassadors to other nations, and other officials in his or her administration
What are presidential appointments?