Unit 3 Govt.

Popular Sovereignty

People grant the govt. power

Limited Govt

Govt. Is not all powerful and can do only things the people want

Separation of powers

Power divided among the Branches of govt.

Checks & Balances

Confirms or rejects appointments by executive (including judges)

Veto

Executive can override presidential

Judicial Review

Power of the court to declare a govt. action illegal, or, null and void, because it violated the constitution

Marbury Madison

1803

Federalism

Distribute powers between the. National govt. and the state govt.

Amendments

Set up as a process to add or make changes to the constitution

Bill of Rights

First 10 amendments, written by James Madison that insisted the govt. was NOT giving these rights to citizens… those rights already existed

1st Amend

Freedom of Religion, Speech, and Press

2nd Amend

The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed

10th Amend

Powers not delegated to the United States by the Other natural rights that Constitution, nor exist and the government prohibited by it to the can’t deny them states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people

13th Amend

Banned slavery and involuntary servitude

16th Amend

Income tax laws are legal

21st Amend

Repeals prohibition (18th Amendment)

22nd Amend

Two term limit for President, or less than 10 years

23rd Amend

Washington D.C. gets 3 electoral college votes

26th Amend

Voting age lowered to 18 years old

Congressional Action

Pass laws to spell out several of the Constitution’s brief provisions that were left “skeletal” by the Framers

Expressed Power

Explicitly laid out in the Constitution for each branch of the national government

Implied Power

Logical extensions of expressed powers not explicitly laid out in the Constitution

Necessary & Proper (Elastic) Clause

The Elastic Clause

Inherent Power

Historically belong to government because of sovereignty

Full Faith & Credit Clause

State governments are to recognize each other ’s laws

Supremacy Clause

If state and federal laws conflict, the federal law will take precedence