American Government Chapter 2 & 3

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  1. 4. Powers retained by the states under the Constitution.
  2. 5. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  3. 6. Rule by the people.
  4. 10. The supporters of the proposed Constitution. Believed in strong central government
  5. 12. Gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, with Indian tribes, and among the various states (Article I, Section 8).
  6. 13. a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  7. 15. Supreme Court decision upholding the right of Congress to create a bank.
  8. 16. an agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves in apportioning Representatives, Presidential electors, and direct taxes.
  9. 18. powers of U.S. government which have not been explicitly granted by the Constitution but that is implied by the necessary and proper clause
  10. 20. Right of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal.
  11. 23. opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and the ratification of the Constitution.
  12. 25. Relied in part on the writings of John Locke in asserting that people had certain natural (or unalienable) rights that government could not take away.
  13. 26. specific powers granted to Congress by the United States Constitution
  14. 27. gave the royal governor the right to select the upper house of the Massachusetts legislature
  15. 28. assures that the Constitution and federal laws and treaties take precedence over state law.
  16. 29. View that states have strong independent authority to resist federal rules under the Constitution.
  17. 30. Five colonists killed by British soldiers; led Parliament to repeal all Townshend Act taxes except for tea tax
  18. 31. Delegated the First Continental Congress
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  1. 1. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government
  2. 2. required colonists to house British soldiers in their private homes, even during times of peace.
  3. 3. form of democracy in which the people decide on policy initiatives directly.
  4. 7. power of the courts of a country to examine the actions of the legislative, executive, and administrative arms of the government and to determine whether such actions are consistent with the constitution.
  5. 8. To formally withdraw from a nation-state.
  6. 9. Process for selecting state judges whereby the original nomination is by appointment, and subsequent retention is by a retention election.
  7. 11. acted as the common government of the states between 1775 and 1781.
  8. 14. Gives Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to the powers enumerated in Article I, Section 8
  9. 17. requires a "person held to service or labor" (usually a slave, apprentice, or indentured servant) who flees to another state to be returned to the owner in the state from which that person escaped.
  10. 19. Imposed new taxes on imports; led to rallying cry “no taxation without representation”
  11. 21. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the regional (for example, state) governments.
  12. 22. the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
  13. 24. Powers held by both the national and state governments in a federal system.