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A form of government in which people elect representatives to create and enforce laws.
What is Republicanism?
Freedom of choice.
What is Liberty?
The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.
Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government (who gets what, when, and how).
What is Politics?
A consistent set of beliefs by groups/individuals.
What is Ideology?
A system of government in which citizens elect representatives to make decisions about the laws for all the people.
What is Representative Democracy?
a system of democracy in which all members of a group participate in making major decisions together.
What is Participatory Democracy?
Political system in which power is distributed among multiple groups.
What is Pluralist Democracy?
A model democracy where a group of wealthy people are in charge of influencing decision making.
What is Elitist Democracy?
The idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and property.
What is Natural Rights?
Constitutional clause that states that federal law takes precedence over all other laws.
What is National Supremacy Clause?
Agreement that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
What is Three-Fifths Compromise?
Constitutional clause that gives congress the power to make all laws essential and essential for executing its powers.
What is Necessary and Proper Clause?
"The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America."
What is the Executive Powers Clause?
The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
A system of government in which people elect representatives to a parliament to make laws, for example Canada and the UK.
What is Parliamentary System?
The constitutional power of Congress to raise and spend money. Congress can use this as a negative checking power over the other branches.
What is the Power of the Purse?
Established judicial review; "midnight judges;" John Marshall; power of the Supreme Court.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
What is the Commerce Clause?
An action by the House of Representatives to accuse the president, vice president, or other civil officers of the United States of committing "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
What is Impeachment?
Rebellion of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787, protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
James Madison's plan of government, in which states got a number of representatives in Congress based on their population.
What is Virginia Plan?
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.
What is New Jersey Plan?
An agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States.
What is the Great Compromise?
Powers specifically given to Congress in the Constitution; including the power to collect taxes, coin money, regulate foreign and interstate commerce, and declare war.
What is Enumerated Powers?