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26 Cards in this Set
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Amendment Process |
Formal- may be proposed by 2/3 vote of both houses of Congress or by a national convention called by congress by request of 2/3 of state legislatures or by legislatures of 3/4 of the state's or by special state conventions in 3/4 of the state's. Informal- Judicial interpretation |
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Antifederalists |
Against the ratification of the constitution. Feared a strong central government. Wanted power to stay with the states. |
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Bicameral |
2 chambers of congress, product of the great compromise. |
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Bill of Rights |
Ten amendments ratified by the states to restrain the national government from limiting civil liberties |
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Checks and balances |
Each branch can check the powers of the other two branches to a certain extent. The president can veto bills passed by Congress, Congress could confirm or deny certain Presidential appointments |
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Constitution |
What the delegates use to replace the Articles of Confederation that established federalism. |
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Declaration of Independence |
The document is both political and philosophical. It announces and rationalizes a Revolution. It lists 27 specific ways that King George the third had abused The Americans |
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Factions |
James Madison feared factions of self-interested individuals banding together to create tyranny. |
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Federalism |
Political Authority divided between the national government and the various state governments |
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Federalist Papers |
85 articles from late 1787 through 1788. Written by Alexander Hamilton John Jay and James Madison. They provided rare glimpses into the Philadelphia meetings and important elaborations regarding the Constitution. |
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Federalist |
People who were for the ratification of the Constitution wanted a strong central government |
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The Great Compromise |
Compromise between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan created a bicameral legislation. One house, the house pf representatives, representing population of state- Virginia plan. And another house giving two members per state in the senate- New Jersey Plan |
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Judicial review |
Enables the court to settle disputes regarding interpretations of the Constitution. Marbury vs. Madison |
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Natural rights |
Rights that are inherent in all human beings apart from any form of government and can be neither taken away or given up. |
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New Jersey Plan |
Insisted on equal representation for each state |
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Ratification |
Federalist against anti-federalist. Anti-Federalists eventually ratified the Constitution after the addition of the Bill of Rights allowing the states to have more power. |
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Republic |
A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch |
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Separation of powers |
Executive legislative and judicial would be given independent Powers so that no one branch could control the others and no Branch could operate with total Independence |
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Shay's Rebellion |
A series of attacks on courthouses to keep judges from foreclosing on farms. Neither the national government or the state of Massachusetts was able to raise a militia to put down the Rebellion. Perceived weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation convinced many that bold Solutions were needed to mend the country's post Revolutionary War problems |
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Virginia Plan |
Called for representation to be based on the state's proportion of the total American population |
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Unalienable |
Unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor |
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Unicameral |
Having a single legislative chamber |
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Block grants |
Given regularly to States and localities with few strings attached in order to support broad programs in areas such as Community Development and social needs |
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Categorical grants |
Grants for specific purposes defined by federal law. to build an airport or a college dormitory in. |
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Conditions of aid |
Based on distributional formulas which provides grants automatically and objectively. |
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Cooperative federalism |
Powers and policy often shared between states and the national government and costs and administration |
