Development Of A Constitutional Democracy Flashcards
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The first attempt at organizing the govt of the U.S., consisting of a unicameral Congress. Did not permit Congress to tax, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, or enforce its laws. The Articles of Confederation failed as it formed an alliance of sovereign state govts with too weak a national govt.
What were the National Govts power under the Articles of Confederation?
The power to borrow and coin money
The power to declare war
The power to regulate trade with the Native Americans
The power to settle disputes among other states
Why was it so difficult to change the Articles of Confederation?
They required unanimous consent by all the states for any change
What state called for a bicameral legislature?
Virginia
In what Article of the Constitution was Congress created?
One
What was the Great Compromise also known as?
The Connecticut Compromise
What was the Great Compromise?
Was a 1787 agreement that created a bicameral legislature with representation based on population in the HoR and equal representation of states in the Senate
Which Supreme Court case set a precedent for the Bill of Rights applying only to the federal government actions and not the states?
Barron v. Baltimore
Why was the separate-but-equal provision in Plessy v. Ferguson ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board decision?
It violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment
What describes the Supreme Court’s decision in Cohen v. California?
Symbolic speech to express political opinions is constitutionally protected
What describes the Supreme Court’s ruling in Texas v. Johnson?
Flag burning is constitutionally protected political speech
In which case did the Supreme Court rule that a person must be opposed to all wars and not just a particular war to claim conscientious objector status?
Gillette v. United States
In which case did the Supreme Court rule there is a constitutional right to privacy that protects a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy?
Roe v. Wade
Slave brought into free state by owner and back to Missouri argued that his time in the free land made him free. Court declared that he would remain a slave due to the Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Guns not related to a well regulated militia
U.S. v. Miller
