SCOTUS + Documents
This foundational document begins with the phrase “We the People,” establishing popular sovereignty.
What is the Constitution?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed and that people have natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
The Articles of Confederation created this type of legislature.
What is a unicameral legislature?
The first three articles of the constitution (in order) establish what?
What is the Legislative Branch (Congress), the Executive Branch (President), the Judicial Branch (Supreme Court)?
This is defined as a vigorous relationship between the Federal and State Governments.
What is Federalism?
This required case established the principle of judicial review, allowing the Court to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This colonial document was an early example of self-government in British North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Anti-Federalist paper warned that the Constitution threatened liberty.
What is Brutus No. 1?
This clause allows Congress to make laws necessary and proper to carry out its powers.
What is the Elastic Clause?
These two forms of grants are defines as being either very strict in their use, or very flexible.
This Federalist document argued that a large republic would best control factions through pluralism.
What is Federalist No. 10?
The three models of representative democracy.
What are pluralist, participatory and elite?
These two plans were devised as different ways in which to create a new Congress.
What are the New Jersey and Virginia Plans?
This clause establishes that federal law overrides state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
These two types of federalism (dual and cooperative) are often called there types of cakes?
What is layer and marble cake federalism?
This required case established the “clear and present danger” test to determine limits on First Amendment speech.
What is Schenck v. United States?
This colonial practice allowed assemblies to gain power due to limited British enforcement.
What is salutary neglect?
This constitutional mechanism was created as a compromise between election of the president by Congress and direct popular vote, reflecting concerns about factionalism expressed in Federalist No. 10 and distrust of direct democracy at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Electoral College?
These powers are specifically granted to the national government in the Constitution.
What are enumerated powers?
This amendment reserves powers to the states.
What is the 10th amendment?
This required decision articulated a constitutional standard under which student expression may not be prohibited merely because it is controversial, distinguishing protected political speech from later cases permitting regulation of lewd or school-sponsored expression.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District?
The phrase “no taxation without representation” was a rejection of this British concept.
What is virtual representation?
Recent Supreme Court rulings invoking the “major questions doctrine” to limit executive agency power revive Anti-Federalist concerns expressed during ratification that broad interpretations of the Necessary and Proper Clause would allow this type of government to accumulate excessive authority.
What is a strong centralized national government?
In this SCOTUS case, the Court ruled that although Congress may regulate interstate commerce, possession of a firearm near a school did not substantially affect interstate commerce, marking the first significant limitation of Commerce Clause power in decades.
What is United States v. Lopez?
This policy under Nixon distributed federal funds with fewer restrictions.
What is revenue sharing?