Midterm Flashcards
What is a responsibility?
Abiding respect to the core beliefs of which democracy is based on.
4 things that make a state
Population
Territory
Sovereignty
Government
Characteristics of democracy
Political authority rests with the people. The people hold the sovereign power and government is conducted only by and with the consent of the people.
Confederate Governemnt
Run by states coming together
3 plans of government in the constitutional convention
Virginia plan
New Jersey plan
Connecticut plan (great compromise)
Parts of the constitution
Preamble
7 articles
27 amendments
What else is the elastic clause called
The necessary and proper clause
Who’s who and what s what Flashcards
Go study them
President of the congress
John Hancock
What is article v about
Provisions for amendments
What’s the 13th amendment about
Slavery
What’s the 14th amendment about
Citizen rights
What’s the 15th amendment about
Voting rights
What’s the 18th amendment about
Prohibiting alcohol
What’s the 19th amendment about
Equal rights
What’s the 21st amendment about
Repeal 18th amendment
What’s the 22nd amendment about
Presidential laws
The force theory
A group came and took the territory by force and started a government
Evolution theory
A group evolved and settled and started a government
Divine right theory
God chose people to rule a state
Social contract theory
A group gave power to the government for the well being and created its own sovereign state
Historical reason for bicameral legislature
British parliament had it so the Americans used it
Practical reason for bicameral legislature
Created to settle the Virginia and New Jersey plan with the Connecticut plan
Theoretical reason for bicameral legislature
So that one house can “check” the other house
What is a duty?
A citizens commitment to obey the law.
