Ap US Government and Politics Unit 1 review

They thought that the central government would be too weak to support the country.

The central government got stronger and the stage governments got weaker.

They said that it already protected rights and liberty enough and that a Bill of Rights would just confuse people.

They said that the Constitution took away too much power from the people so they needed some kind of protection of their rights from the central government.

Rhode Island AND after.

Liberty, equality, order, and private property

A government where there is one person in charge who often has little to no restrictions to what they can do.

EX. A monarch.

A government where groups of people make decisions. People work together.

EX. Black Lives Matter protests. Protests in general.

A government where individuals have to make their own decisions.

EX. Voting.

Created a bicameral legislature - Senate and the House of Representatives.

Presidential electors from each state, number of electors is based on the state’s population. The candidate with a majority of the electoral votes wins.

Three out of every five enslaved people would be counted towards a state’s population. Gave southern states an advantage.

The South stated that if slaves were banned, they would not ratify the Constitution. It was decided that Congress could not ban the Slave Trade until 1808.

Gave the national government more power for surveillance.

Broke the national government into three branches, Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

Legislative, Executive, Judicial, State, Amendments, Supremacy Clause, and Ratification of the Constitution.

It allows different branches of government to limit other branch’s powers to prevent corruption and abuse of power.

It says that states must recognize other states records and decrees. Found in Article 4, Section 1.

States can’t discriminate based on what state people are from. Found in Article 4, Section 2, Clause 1.

Different levels of government are clearly divided and don’t share powers.

Different levels of government are not clearly divided and share powers.

Powers that are clearly and specifically given to Congress in the Constitution.

Powers that are shared between the states and congress.

Powers not given to Congress or denied to Congress which are passed down to states and become state rights.

Powers not given to Congress in the Constitution but are needed for Congress to carry out its duties (Necessary and Proper Clause)

Powers reserved for states, brings forth the whole idea of Federalism in the US.

Gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or nation. Deals withe the power imbalance of government levels.

Gives Congress the right to do what is needed in order to carry out their powers in the Constitution. Probably the most powerful and important clause, can and has been stretched very far.

Money given to state governments from the national government in order to fund specific activities inside of specific programs.

Money given to states from the national government which can be used for a wide range of activities and programs.

When states want to do something but they aren’t given money by the national government and have to fun dit themselves.

Money given straight to states in order to share the cost of something, like a loan.

The transfer of power from the national government to the state governments. Always means that way, never from state to national governments.

It changed how much people traveled (Commerce Clause) and it also changed state’s political standpoints (Republican, Democratic, or neutral).