POLS 1101 Chapters 2 & 3

5. Gives congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, with Indian tribes, and among various states.
6. Authority of the president to block legislation passed by Congress.
10. Compromise on legislative representation whereby the lower chamber is based on population, and the upper chamber provides equal representation to the states.
12. Process for selecting state judges whereby the original nomination is by appointment, and subsequent retention is by a retention election.
13. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the regional governments.
15. Powers held by both the national and state governments in a federal system.
17. Meeting in 1787 at which twelve states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation but ended up proposing an entirely new constitution.
19. Gives Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to the powers enumerated in Article 1, Section 8.
23. System of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between national and state governments.
24. Initial governing authority of the United States
25. Formal process of changing the Constitution.
26. First ten amendments to the Constitution.
27. Makes federal law supreme over state laws.
28. Imposed taxes on almost all paper productions; boycotts and riots followed.
29. Required colonists to export certain items only to Britain.

1. Five colonists killed by British soldiers; led Parliament to repeal all Townshend Act taxes except for tea tax.
2. Powers retained by the states under the Constitution.
3. The 1776 document declaring American independence from Great Britain.
4. Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause.
7. The presidential electors, selected to represent the votes of their respective states, who meet every four years to cast the electoral votes for president and vice president.
8. Right of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal.
9. Rule by the people.
11. Colonists dump taxed tea into Boston Harbor.
14. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government.
16. Form of government in which power derives from citizens, but public officials make policy and govern according to existing law.
18. To formally withdraw from a nation-state.
20. Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution.
21. Document that establishes the basic rules and procedures for how a society shall be governed.
22. Form of democracy in which political power is exercised directly by the citizens.