Unit 4: How our Government has Changed Over Time

Open Ended

Research the following terms and define them in your own words:

1. suffrage

2. disenfranchised

3. popular sovereignty

4. federalism

5. judicial review

Match

Match the following concepts about how the Constitution has changed over time.

• An addition to the U.S. Constitution that adds to, modifies, replaces, or nullifies some provisions of the original document and previous amendments

• Several amendments have been passed that expanded suffrage to disenfranchied groups. These amendments changed/expanded the principle of ...

• The power of the Supreme Court to decide if a law is unconstitutional

• This Supreme Court case changed checks and balances by establising the Supreme Court's power of judicial review

• This Supreme Court case gave the Supreme Court more authority to regulate interstate commerce. This changed the principle of federalism.

Amendments

popular sovereignty

judicial review

Marbury v. Madison

Gibbons v. Ogden

• Amendments

• popular sovereignty

• judicial review

• Marbury v. Madison

• Gibbons v. Ogden

Open Ended

Overview Questions - Answer using only your guided notes.

1. What is the process to amend the constitution?

2. How did the Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison, expand the constitutional principle of checks and balances?

3. How did the Supreme Court case, Gibbons v. Odgen, expand the constitutional principle of federalism?

4. How did the Voting Rights Act further ensure our constitutional rights and liberties?

5. Political parties are not included in the constitution, but they have expanded the principle of popular sovereignty. Explain how.

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