Before the Constitution
Required Docs
Elements of Government
Ratification of the Constitution and Beyond
Theories and Compromises
100
Group that opposed the ratification of the constitution
Who are the anti-federalists
100

The commerce clause was limited by this supreme court case

What is United States v. Lopez?

100
Each branch of government has power to limit the power of the other two branches of government
What is checks and balances
100
the most serious danger to a republic according to James Madison and most others at the constitutional convention
What are factions
100

One part of the Connecticut "Great" Compromise that argued for a bicameral legislature, with both houses based on population.

What is the Virginia Plan?

200
stated the colonists rationale to protect their natural rights by instituting a new government
What is the Declaration of Independence
200

This was amended into the U.S. Constitution to help protect individual and state rights.

What is The Bill of Rights?

200
a legislature with two separate chambers
What is bicameral
200
a series of essays written in support of ratifying the constitution
What are the Federalist Papers
200
resolved the issue of counting slaves into the population for apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives
What is the 3/5 Compromise
300
Document that created strong states governments and a weak, ineffective central government
What is the Articles of Confederation
300

Ambition will counteract ambition (checks and balances; separation of powers)

What is Fed 51?

300
Referring to a division of power between the federal government and the states
What is federalism
300

This clause  of the Constitution set up the implied power after the decision in McCullough v. Maryland

What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?

300

One part of the Connecticut "Great" Compromise that argued for a unicameral legislature with equal representation between the states.

What is the New Jersey Plan?

400
Exposed the division between rural poor and urban elite, and highlighted the need for a national military
What is Shay's Rebellion
400

Tyranny of the majority; danger of factions

What is Fed 10?

400
Political definition of granting power to an independent executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch.
What is separation of powers
400

voting rights, education, and criminal justice were examples of this type of power left to the states.

What are reserved powers?

400

Marbury v Madison gave the judicial branch the power of Judicial Review - the right to declare acts of Congress and the President unconstitutional. This reflects this principle of American Democracy.

What are Checks and Balances?

500
Conflict that encouraged the British crown to impose taxes on the American colonists
What is the French and Indian War "Seven Year's War"
500

A strong central government will inevitably become corrupt; the U.S. should not accept the U.S. Constitution

What is Brutus 1?

500

After dissolving the confederation, this is the type of geographic government system put in place in the U.S.

What a federal system?

500

This is what Article V of the U.S. Constitution stipulated

What is the amendment process?

500

Rousseau and later John Locke described this theory for how governments should gain their powers 

Social Contract Theory