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USC Grab Bag
6 Principles of the USC
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Bill of Rights
100
This is where you will find the Necessary and Proper Clause in the US Constitution.
What is Article I, Section 8, Clause 18?
100
This is the "power of the people."
What is "popular sovereignty"?
100
This is how the President can try to stop legislation that he does not like.
What is exercise his right to veto a bill?
100
This is the idea that the states and national government share power.
What is Federalism?
100
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution are known as this.
What is the "Bill of Rights"?
200
This is where you will find the Supremacy Clause in the US Constitution.
What is Article VI?
200
The US Supreme Court exercises this to determine the constitutionality of laws.
What is "Judicial Review"?
200
This is how Congress can pass a bill into law, even if the President does not like that bill.
What is a 2/3 vote of both the House of Representatives and the Senate?
200
This is the government that handles drivers licenses.
What are the state governments?
200
The Second Amendment gives us this right.
What is the right to bear arms?
300
This is where it states that all citizens, 18 and older, can vote.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
300
This is the idea that one branch of the Federal Government can make sure that the other branches do not grow too powerful.
What are "checks and balances"?
300
This is where someone goes in front of one of the houses of Congress to be vetted, and eventually voted on for appointment to the US Supreme Court.
What is the Senate's Role in Presidential Appointments?
300
This is the government that handles taxes.
What are state AND national governments?
300
This is a PHRASE used to exercise the right of not self-incriminating.
What is "I plead the 5th Amendment?"
400
This is where you will find Mr. Smolen's favorite part of the US Constitution.
What is the Second Amendment?
400
The President being the enforcer of laws and Congress being the maker of laws is representative of this idea.
What is "separation of powers"?
400
This is the entity which can impeach a sitting US President.
What is the House of Representatives?
400
This is the government that regulates intrastate commerce.
What are the state governments?
400
These are the five rights specified in the First Amendment.
What are press, speech, assembly, petition, and religion?
500
This is the most specific name for the type of government America has.
What is a "democratically-elected, constitutional republic"?
500
This is the idea that the government should be just large enough to defend our rights, but not large enough to take our rights away.
What is "limited government"?
500
This is the entity which serves as the Jury in a trial of a Sitting President for removal from office.
What is the Senate?
500
This is the government who provides and maintains for the United States Navy.
What is the national government?
500
This is the idea that if the government takes your land, they have to pay you for it.
What is eminent domain?