Federalism
What are layer cake and marble cake?
This article of the Constitution defines the legislative branch and outlines its powers and limitations.
What is Article I?
Political ideology that believes in a limited form of government and traditional values.
What is conservatism?
This Amendment offers protection of religious freedoms.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This is a type of power that is explicitly granted in the Constitution.
What are expressed/enumerated powers?
This is the other term for expressed powers.
What are enumerated powers?
This is the principle of dividing the government into different branches.
What is the separation of powers?
Political ideology that believes in a more active form of government, especially in regard to welfare and civil rights.
What is liberalism?
This is the number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
This is the part of the Constitution that reserves power to state governments.
What is the 10th Amendment?
The national government uses this to give money to the states to use at their discretion.
What are block grants?
The process by which the courts determine a law or action to be unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
Process in which the divide between ideologies is growing and there is less tolerance between them.
What is polarization?
This is the purpose of the 10th Amendment.
What is give power to the states?
These are the four things protected by states' police powers.
What are health, safety, morals, and general welfare?
This word describes the process in which power is transferred or surrendered from a national government to state or local governments.
This is the purpose of checks and balances between the branches of government.
What is to prevent one branch from becoming too powerful?
Janey grew up in a small part of the country and has fairly traditional beliefs. She believes that taxes are way too high right now, and the government has too much control over the economy. Based on this information, Janey is of this ideology.
What is conservative?
This amendment protects people from being tried on both the state and federal level for the same crime, also known as double jeopardy.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This is where the implied powers of the national government originate from.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause (or the Elastic Clause)?
This is one of federalism's strengths.
Any of the following:
1. size of country
2. policy experimentation
3. more direct effects on people/subcultures
This is the purpose of Article V of the Constitution.
What is amending/ratifying the Constitution?
This term describes the most recent form of polarization in which people are identifying more strongly with the far ends of the political spectrum.
What is extremism?
To ratify an amendment to the Constitution, it must be approved by this many state legislatures.
What is 3/4?
This court case reinforced the supremacy clause, determining that the federal government takes precedence whenever there was conflict with states.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?