Bilyeu ch. 3 & 4 key terms and important dates

all about the legislative branch - House of Representatives and Senate - qualifications, terms, methods of selection, apportionment, powers of Congress, law making

all about the Executive Branch - President and Vice President - terms, qualifications, Electoral College, powers and duties, removal procedure

all about the federal courts - the Supreme Court - authority, terms, powers

relationship of the states to one another and to the nat'l gov't - federalism - full faith and credit clause, process for admitting new states

amendment procedure

supremacy clause, "the linchpin of the entire federal system", protection from religious tests for holding any office, strengthens the separation of church and state guarantee

procedure for ratification

a way of dividing power among three branches of government

a governmental structure that gives each of the three branches of government some degree of oversight and control over the actions of the others (know examples)

plan of government created in the US Constitution in which power is divided between the national and the state governments

portion of Article VI of the US Constitution mandating that national law is supreme to all other laws passed by the states or any other subdivision of government

a list of items, found in Article I, Section 8, that set forth the authoritative capacity of Congress

clause in Article I, Section 8 that gives Congress the the right to "make all laws necessary & proper" to carry out powers expressed in the other clauses of Article I

the limits or territory within which authority may be exercised

the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional

powers the Constitution grants to the national government

powers directly stated in the Constitution

powers that the government requires to carry out the expressed constitutional powers

powers that belong strictly to the states

powers that both the national government and the states have

an act that allows the people of a territory interested in becoming a state to prepare a constitution

to return a criminal or fugitive who flees across state lines back to the original state

relating to disputes among two or more individuals or between individuals and the government

tax levied on individual and corporate earnings

to revoke by legislative enactment

Power of a government to take private property for public use.

to formally accuse

French and Indian War

King George III comes to the throne

First Continental Congress

Revolutionary War

Declaration of Independance

Second Continental Congress

Articles of Confederation

Constitutional Convention

Constitution Day

Constitution Ratified

Bill of Rights Ratified

27th Amendment Ratified