objectives c3

Question 1

Legislative branch

Answer 1

bicameral Congress
1. Senate- 2 per state
* 17th adm. , granted people to vote for senators
* checks on popular will and remenant of state’s right from the Articles of Confederation
* must be: mim. 30yrs, resident 9yrs of state they wish to serve
2. House of Representatives- proportional to pop
* .13th adm. slaves 3/4 added
* 2yr term, directly voted by people
* must be: 25yrs old
* resident 7yrs of the state they want to serve

Question 2

founders changed the article of confederation into what new form of gov.?

Answer 2

feuderalism

Question 3

what is the join or die cartoon

Answer 3

benjamin franklin asking the states to be unified. during the french and indian war and revoultionary war

Question 4

unitary system

Answer 4

system of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government

Question 5

confederal system

Answer 5

system of government in which ultiamate authority rests with the regional governments

Question 6

example of the unitary system

Answer 6

counties’s juridistion within states has power only granted by its state

Question 7

example of confederal system

Answer 7

articles of confederation gives states governement the ultimate power over the national government

Question 8

federal system

Answer 8

national and state governments derive the authority from the people

Question 9

what powers are specific to the national government

Answer 9

regulating interstate commerce
raising armies
declaring war
coining money

Question 10

what powers are specific to the state?

Answer 10

regulating intrastate comerce
regulating family law
handling most criminal law

Question 11

what powers do both national and state government share?

Answer 11

taxing
borrowing
spending
(money stuff)
regulating health and education
licesing
setting time, place, and manner
of congressional election

Question 12

william riker definition of the feuderalism system

Answer 12

1. two levels of gov. rule the same land and people
2. each level has at least one area of action in which is it autonomous
3. gurantee autonomy of each gov in its own sphere

Question 13

self gov

Answer 13

power given directly by the people

Question 14

how does the constitution lay the framework of US federal system

Answer 14

1. grants specific powers to the national gov
2. sets limits on both powers of national and state gov.
3. lays rules for the relationship among the states and the states and gov.

Question 16

enumerated powers

Answer 16

powers expreslly granted to congress by the consitution

Question 17

necessary and proper clause

Answer 17

gives congress the power to pass all laws necessar and proper

colect taxes and commerce

Question 18

10th adment

Answer 18

powers not delegated or prohibited to the US by the consitution are given to the state or people

Question 19

reserve powers

Answer 19

police powers of the states protect its people with welfare, saferty and health yet federal gov doing it more today

Question 20

concurrent powers

Answer 20

powers shared by both national and state gov

Question 21

direct democracy

Answer 21

form of democracy in which politica power is excercised directly by citizens

Question 22

14th admendment

Answer 22

prohbits the states from denying any person

Question 23

habeus corpus

Answer 23

can not have someone in prison without the judge giving them the reason

Question 24

bill of attainder

Answer 24

law that declared n individual guilty of a crime

Question 25

associational freedoms

Answer 25

first ten amendments to the constitution (speech, press, assembly, and religon)

Question 26

ex post facto law

Answer 26

can make a an act illegal after the fact

Question 27

direct democracy

Answer 27

form of democracy in which political power is excercisd directly by citizens

Question 28

supremecy clause

Answer 28

makes federal law supreme over state laws