Who Did What?
Who wrote the Social Contract Theory and believed people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property?
Who is John Locke
What Clause states the Federal government is above the states?
What is the Supremacy Clause
What document is the supreme law of the land?
What is the Constitution
What is federalism?
What is the splitting of powers between the national and state governments.
What Compromise/ Plan creates a bicameral legislature and states that the Senate represents the states and the House represents the population of the states?
What is the Connecticut Plan/ The Great Compromise
Who wrote the Federalist Papers that supported the passage of the U.S Constitution? (3 answers)
Who is Madison, Hamilton, and Jay
What are powers held by the sovereign states?
What are Inherent powers
What document believes government officials are best checked in a small, decentralized republic and that a large central government would make representatives to far removed from the people?
Which system of government does both the states and the national government have clear distinct powers and have limited interaction?
What is Layer cake/ dual federalism
What Compromise states that slaves are counted as 3/5ths of a person before the House?
What is the 3/5ths Compromise
Who supported a strong central government and was the founder of the Federalist Party?
Who is Alexander Hamilton
What are implied powers?
What are powers not stated in the constitution, but implied throughout the elastic clause.
What document believes factions are good for democracy?
What is Federalist #10
What is Marble Cake / Cooperative Federalism
What is a system of government in which powers and policy are shared between states and the national government
What plan proposed bicameralism, judges picked by the legislature, and representation based on population?
What is the Virginia Plan
Who was afraid of a large central government taking away the people’s and state’s rights, and compromised by amending the Bill of Rights to the Constitution?
Who is the Anti Federalist
What clause said that states had to respect the “Public acts, record and judicial proceedings of every other state?"
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause
What document was the first written government of the United States and had several flaws?
What is The Articles of Confederation
Identify what causes Marble Cake Federalism
What is Grant-in-aids
What plan proposed a unicameral legislature and equal votes among states?
What is the New Jersey Plan
Who was the oldest member at the Constitutional Convention?
Who is Benjamin Franklin
Who are the two groups that hold the power of the amending process and how many in those groups have to vote yes?
What is ⅔ of Congress and ¾ of State Legislature
What document helps create the basis of separation of powers and checks and balances?
In a Federal system of government power to rule is primarily in the hands of __________.
What is both State and Federal Governments
What Compromise stated that Congress could not use the Commerce Clause to ban the importation of slaves for 20 years?
What is the Compromise on the Importation of Slaves