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characteristics of a state
population is permanent
Defined territory
Soverignty; capacity to conduct international relations/right to control affairs
Principles of preamble
justice
domestic tranquility
common defense
general welfare
secure blessings of liberty
soical contract theory
thomas jefferson justified colonial independence and it assumes people live w out gov and willing to give up some freedom/liberty
communism
society where all property is publicy owned and each person has a job and paid
oligarchy
small group who have control of country, etc
democracy
gov by consent of the governed
necessary and proper clause
authorizes congress to employ any mean that are appropiate
supremacy clause
oaths of law and take top priority over any rules
full faith and credit clause
recognizing the laws and court decisions of other states
presidential democracy
the president is constitutionally independent of the legislative
parliamentary Democracy
the head of state is seperate from head of gov
john locke believed what
- people are intatley good and wanted to protect their rights
- consent of society
federalist
- for the constitution
- led by alexander H and james Madison
Thomas Hobbes beleived what
- humans lived in uncontrolled freedom with no gov
- notion of social contact
-people are too self to govern
anti
- not for constitution
- led by john locke and patrick henry
confed gov
A political union of soverign states for purposes of common A
method for adding amendments
2/3 compromise (2/3 vote of each house of congress and be ratifiied by 3/4 of state legistlatures
popular sov
power resides with the people “we the people”
reserved powers
powers belonging to state because the constitution does not grant them to national gov
concurrent vs expressed powers
concurrent=powers shared by national gov and state
expressed=delevgated to national gov
interstate compacts
agreements between themselves and foreign states
