Political Science - Exam 1 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED
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The 4 UNOFFICIAL ways the Constitution can be amended - 1) Supreme Court decisions
2) Legislative Actions/Laws
3) Presidential and Congressional Action
4) Popular Customs and Practices
Preamble - "We the People..." : contract between population & government
Article 1 - All legislative power: 2 houses (bicameralism), longest article, Section 8=areas
government can operate and authority
Article 2 - The executive power: President "hammer", short article
Article 3 - The judiciary power: Supreme Court; court system
Article 4 - Full faith and credit... : Section 1, interstate obligations, and Section 3, how new states
are admitted
Article 5 - Amendments to constitution: official pathways for ratification; only Prohibition was
ever repealed
Article 6 - Debts, supremacy, oaths: supremacy clause
Article 7 - Ratification; approval by 9 states
checks and balances - mechanisms through which each branch of government is able to
participate in and influence the activities of the other branches. Major examples include the
presidential veto power over congressional legislation, the power of the Senate to approve
presidential appointments, and judicial review of congressional enactments
federalism - a system of government in which power is divided, by a constitution, between a
central government and regional governments
the Federalist Papers - a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and
John Jay supporting the ratification of the Constitution
the Great Compromise - the agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that
gave each state an equal number of senators regardless of its population, but linked
representation in the House of Representatives to population
Virginia Plan - a framework for the Constitution, introduced by Edmund Randolph, which called
for representation in the national legislature based on the population of each state
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The 4 UNOFFICIAL ways the Constitution can be amended - 1) Supreme Court decisions
2) Legislative Actions/Laws
3) Presidential and Congressional Action
4) Popular Customs and Practices
Preamble - "We the People..." : contract between population & government
Article 1 - All legislative power: 2 houses (bicameralism), longest article, Section 8=areas
government can operate and authority
Article 2 - The executive power: President "hammer", short article
Article 3 - The judiciary power: Supreme Court; court system
Article 4 - Full faith and credit... : Section 1, interstate obligations, and Section 3, how new states
are admitted
Article 5 - Amendments to constitution: official pathways for ratification; only Prohibition was
ever repealed
Article 6 - Debts, supremacy, oaths: supremacy clause
Article 7 - Ratification; approval by 9 states
checks and balances - mechanisms through which each branch of government is able to
participate in and influence the activities of the other branches. Major examples include the
presidential veto power over congressional legislation, the power of the Senate to approve
presidential appointments, and judicial review of congressional enactments
federalism - a system of government in which power is divided, by a constitution, between a
central government and regional governments
the Federalist Papers - a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and
John Jay supporting the ratification of the Constitution
the Great Compromise - the agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that
gave each state an equal number of senators regardless of its population, but linked
representation in the House of Representatives to population
Virginia Plan - a framework for the Constitution, introduced by Edmund Randolph, which called
for representation in the national legislature based on the population of each state
