Money given to achieve general policy goals.

(a)  

The intertwined relationship between national, state, and local governments that began with the new deal

(a)  

Federal funds given to states for a specific purpose.

(a)  

The belief that having separate andequally powerful levels ofgovernment is the best arrangement

(a)  

Can Congress regulate commerce?

(a)  

Can Congress charter banks?

(a)  

Congress may not regulate slavery in new territories

(a)  

What is the name for powers of both federal and state government?

(a)  

Powers implied for the federal government by the Constitution?

(a)  

What are the powers plainly listed in the Constitution?

(a)  

Congress shall have the power “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other provisions vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department thereof”

(a)  

List of checks and balances:

(a)  

What is the difference of checks and balances from the separation of powers?

(a)  

How is separation of powers different from checks and balances?

(a)  

What is the Supremacy Clause?

(a)  

What was the New Jersey Plan (Who did it benefit)?

(a)  

What was the Virginia Plan (Who did it benefit)?

(a)  

What is the significance of federalist paper 51?

(a)  

What is the significance of federalist paper 10 written by James Madison?

(a)  

What were the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?

(a)  

What did article 7 outline in the Constitution?

(a)  

What did article 6 outline in the Constitution?

(a)  

What did article 5 outline in the Constitution?

(a)  

What did article 4 outline in the Constitution?

(a)  

What did article 3 outline in the Constitution?

(a)  

What did article 2 outline in the Constitution?

(a)  

What did article 1 outline in the Constitution?

(a)  

What did article 7 outline in the Articles of Confederation?

(a)  

What did article 6 outline in the Articles of Confederation?

(a)  

What did article 5 outline in the Articles of Confederation?

(a)  

What did article 4 outline in the Articles of Confederation?

(a)  

What did article 3 outline in the Articles of Confederation?

(a)  

What did article 2 outline in the Articles of Confederation?

(a)  

What did article 1 outline in the Articles of Confederation?

(a)  

When did the U.S. Constitution take effect as our main government?

(a)  

During which years was the Articles of Confederation in effect?

(a)  

System where the vast majority of power rests with the states

(a)  

System where all power lies with the national government

(a)  

Which compromise prevented congress from outlawing the importation of slaves until 1808

(a)  

Which compromise accounted for the election of the President by Congress and the election of the President by popular vote of qualified citizens?

(a)  

Which compromise split Congress into 2 houses: Senate and House of Representatives?

(a)  

Which Compromise proposed that slaves be counted as a portion of a person when determining how many votes each state gets in the House of Representatives?

(a)  

How many compromises in the Constitutional Convention?

(a)  

Which colonies attended the Annapolis Convention?

(a)  

A meeting incipiently aimed at constructing uniform parameters to regulate trade between states during a time of political turbulence and economic strain

(a)  

An economic philosophy of free-market capitalism that opposes government intervention

(a)  

What did Common

Sense argue for?

(a)  

Who wrote Common

Sense

(a)  

What is the significance of the Declaration of Independence

(a)  

What was thejustification for the taxes on the American Colonists given by the British

(a)  

Why did the American Colonists revolt against Great Britain

(a)  

The formal meeting of delegates from the American colonies to form a provisional government together to make decisions about the war with Britain over American independence

(a)  

The governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution

(a)  

Imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England

(a)  

Gives Congress broad power to regulate interstate commerce and restricts states from impairing interstate commerce

(a)  

Authorizes Congress to employ any means that are appropriate and plainly adapted to the permitted end

(a)  

The North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War

(a)  

Based on the idea that a nation's wealth and power were best served by increasing exports and reducing imports

(a)  

Who conceived the idea of separating government authority into the three major branches: executive, legislative and judicial?

(a)  

What was the significance of Shay's Rebellion

(a)  

The national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals including representative democracy, rights, liberty, and equality, in which freedom is interpreted as the opportunity for individual prosperity and success

(a)  

Dominant power or supreme authority

(a)  

A body of rules prescribed by an authority superior to that of the state

(a)  

Members of a religious reform movement known as Puritanism that arose within the Church of England in the late 16th century

(a)  

Who founded the first Baptist church in America?

(a)  

Who was Roger Williams?

(a)  

Who was William Penn

(a)  

What were the main settlements in early colonization?

(a)  

What is the main reason for Europeans to colonize the American continent?

(a)  

No executive, no regulating commerce, no enforce compliance, worthless money, states coined money, no judicial system to handle boundaries:

(a)  

Make peace treaties, coin money, appoint officers for army, control post office, negotiate with Indian tribes:

(a)  

What was John Locke's political philosophy?

(a)  

What do the states retain within their borders?

(a)  

What was the unicameral legislature under the Articles?

(a)  

Where was the power derived from under the Articles of Confederation?

(a)  

What was the first ratified government for the United States?

(a)  

What happened between states after the Revolutionary War due to economic discontent?

(a)  

What did John Locke's Second Treatise of Government provide the legal basis for?

(a)  

The view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live

(a)  

Who created the Social Contract Theory?

(a)  

Philosophical movement in 18th century Europe

(a)  

The first recorded systematic political thought associated with ancient Greeks.

(a)  

Another name for Authoritarian government?

(a)  

Which type of democracy uses representatives? (Defined by elections)

(a)  

Which type of democracy has citizens vote directly on issues?

(a)  

The word Kratia means

(a)  

Political Science is the study of the process of (a)   .

The word Demos means (a)   .