The commerce clause was limited by this supreme court case
What is United States v. Lopez?
One part of the Connecticut "Great" Compromise that argued for a bicameral legislature, with both houses based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This was amended into the U.S. Constitution to help protect individual and state rights.
What is The Bill of Rights?
Ambition will counteract ambition (checks and balances; separation of powers)
What is Fed 51?
This clause of the Constitution set up the implied power after the decision in McCullough v. Maryland
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
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?
Tyranny of the majority; danger of factions
What is Fed 10?
voting rights, education, and criminal justice were examples of this type of power left to the states.
What are reserved powers?
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?
A strong central government will inevitably become corrupt; the U.S. should not accept the U.S. Constitution
What is Brutus 1?
After dissolving the confederation, this is the type of geographic government system put in place in the U.S.
What a federal system?
This is what Article V of the U.S. Constitution stipulated
What is the amendment process?
Rousseau and later John Locke described this theory for how governments should gain their powers
Social Contract Theory