Constitution
To secure the blessings of liberty.
What is protecting our basic freedoms?
Articles 1, 2, and 3 of the Constitution.
What are the three branches of government?
What allows some cases to be tried in either federal or state court?
Powers are separated and shared among branches of the national and state government
What is federalism?
Gives votes in DC the right to vote in Presidential elections.
What is the 23rd amendment?
First 10 amendments of the Constitution
What is Bill of Rights
Virginia makes their own laws as it relates to marriage.
What are reserved powers?
The 10th, 3rd, 7th and Grand Jury Req of 5th Amendment
What amendments from the Bill of Rights are not included in the due process clause?
systems in which laws may be made directly by all citizens
What is direct democracies?
Rights included in the first amendment.
What is religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly.
Written by Madison, he explains how the structure of the proposed government makes liberty possible.
What is the 51st Federalist Essay?
They are responsible for commanding the military
Who is the President?
Two ways to organize central governments.
What is Unitary and Federal systems?
This group works to improve the security of the United States, including customs, border and immigration enforcement, emergency response, antiterrorism, and cybersecurity
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
An extension to the freedom of press amendment
What is freedom of speech?
Natural rights philosophers who influenced the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Locke and Rousseau?
Checks and Balances was created for this reason
What is to prevent one branch from holding too much power
What is privatization.
A purposeful course of action produced in response to a perceived problem, discussed and developed through a political process, and implemented by a public agency
What is public policy?
The Supreme Court expanded individual rights in criminal cases?
What is judicial activism, created by John Marshall?
Believes the role of government should be limited?
What is the belief of conservatives?
Author of the VA Statute for Religious Freedom
Who is the Thomas Jefferson?
Virginia Company at London
What is the Charter that gave colonists the same rights as Englishmen
A unitary style of government (2)
What is a style of government that has a legislative branch that has executive and legislative powers and the executive chosen by the legislature?
Amendments that cover due process.
What are the 4th, 5th, and 8th amendments