Review Flashcards
New Jersey Plan
each state should have one vote, big state would not dominate (in favor of smaller states)
Connecticut Compromise
bicameral legislature. senate represents states equally; House of Representatives represents states based on population
impeachment
power granted by the Constitution; changes for removal of president or anyone high in office, it’s a process does not mean they are removed; Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson
electoral college
institution that really elects the president of the U.S. (not the pop) made up of reps in the states equal to their reps in congress ; majority wins pres
judicial review
courts have right to declare laws null or void; established by Marbury vs. Madison
tariffs
taxes imposed on imported goods;
tariff debate = acute = 1st half of 19th century
north favored tariff from England while the South hated it
tariff of abominations
(1832) tax imposed upon imported Britain goods and Britian retaliated by taxes on imported American goods mainly cotton.
SC threatened to secede
Texas Constitution of 1876
last constitution; establishment of plural executives and a weak governorship
Governor Edmund J. Davis
Pro-union Texas; elected –> defeated –> refused to leave office –> took keys with him; former Union general; tried to centralize power in his hands and we have weak governorship because of him (Const. 1876)
Common Law
predominant in Anglo American countries; law based upon President previous thing/acts provide President for current law; code laws= laws only
Bicameral Legislature
does not mean equally powerful; 2 house; House of Rep and House of Leg; Britain is not, U.S. yes
Marbury vs. Madison 1803
court case under of Chief Justice John Marshay; established principle of Judicial Review
Gibbons vs. Ogden 1824
who gets to regulate interstate commerce; Fed or states
McCulloch vs. Maryland 1819
whether or not state had the right to tax fed institution; court ruled in favor of Federal Government
Block Grants
can do whatever with it no restrictions