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Gov 3.pdfVocabulary THE CONSTITUTION AND FEDERALISM
MAJORITY RULE
A fundamental democratic principle requiring that the majority's view be respected. Nonetheless, the Constitution originally contained a number of provisions designed to limit majority rule, including the electoral college, life tenure for Supreme Court justices, and the selection of senators by state legislators.
System in which each branch of government can limit the power of the other two branches. For example, the Senate has the power to approve or reject presidential appointments to the Supreme Court.
UNITARY SYSTEM
System of government in which all power is invested in a central government
A system of government in which power is divided by a written constitution between a central government and regional governments. As a result, two or more levels of government have formal authority over the same geographic area and people.
EXPRESSED POWERS
Powers specifically granted to the federal government by the Constitution. For example, the Constitution gives Congress the power to coin money, impose taxes, and regulate interstate commerce. Expressed powers are also called enumerated powers.
IMPLIED POWERS
Powers of the federal government that go beyond those enumerated in the Constitution. Implied powers are derived from the elastic or necessary and proper clause.
RESERVED POWERS
Powers not specifically granted to the national government or denied to the states. Reserved powers are held by the states through the Tenth Amendment.
John Locke
Enlightenment Thinker, Life, Liberty & Property
“State of Nature”
concept used in moral and political philosophy, religion, social contract theories and international law to denote the hypothetical conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies came into existence.
Authoritarianism
the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
Totalitarianism
a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
democracy and democratic values
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
Intellectual origins of the Constitution.
The Enlightenment.
Key enlightened ideas.
Reason.
Natural laws.
Progress.
Liberty.
Toleration.
All About the Enlightenment The Age of Reason
What was the Enlightenment?
Key political writers
John Locke.
Montesquieu.
Rousseau.
b. basic philosophical principles of John Locke expressed in the second treatise of government (nature, equality, and dissolution of government);
d. separation of powers as expressed by the Baron of Montesquieu;
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POLITICAL THEORY – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Articles of Confederation.
A firm League of friendship.
Flaws in the Articles of Confederation.
Shays Rebellion.
What Were the Articles of Confederation? | History
Khan Academy - The Articles of Confederation
The Framers.
An Assembly of Demi-Gods
Shared ideas
Founding Fathers - Episodes 1 vesves 2
Founding Fathers - Episodes 3 & 4
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The Constitutional Convention: Compromise & Consensus
A Momentous Decision
Philadelphia Convention
The Connecticut (Great) Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise
Economic Powers
Individual Rights
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The Three Branches of Government
Separating powers.
The legislative Branch.
The Executive Branch.
The Judicial Branch.
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Checks and Balances.
Purpose.
Examples.
Consequences.
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Limitations on majority rule.
The problem of excessive Democracy.
The ways the Constitution limits majority rule.
An Independent Judiciary.
An indirectly Elected President
Why Socrates Hated Democracy
The Problem With Democracy
The Fight for Ratification.
The process.
The Anti-Federalist.
The Federalist.
The Federalist Papers.
Ratification.
The fight to ratify a 200-year-old amendment | CONSTITUTIONAL | The Washington Post
The Fight to Ratify the Constitution
Constitutional Change.
The formal Amendment Process.
Informal methods of constitutional change.
Why is the US Constitution so hard to amend? - Peter Paccone