Con law Practice Exam Questions with Answers

Con law Practice Exam Questions with Answers Constitutionalism - Answer- System that prefers a high law to someone other from of domination/structure (i.e. the army that is dominant and physically controls you/ the thing, a title that is passed down from generation to generation, a monarchy) We, as the people, subscribe to it and ratify it Why do we subscribe to constitutionalism? - Answer- Prevents tyranny Promotes uniformity → equal application of the law to all people in all states Limit itself as so to create space for the individual → the government can go so far as lifting things up and squeezing her but no farther and it leaves freedom, liberty, space for individual flourishing. We need something that constitutes us, not just you, or me, or just the government. Why write down the constitution rather than a conversation system? - Answer- Allows us to have a discourse about what constitutes us We are a written constitution Ours is endured for a couple hundred years Has the potential to be more long living than something that is just verbal, cultural. It can outlive us. (durable) brief history summary - Answer- Before 1776, each colony had their own rules which they each followed. It's a supremacy/ pyramid that moves upward in control of the delegated governors back to the crown in england. English become extractive colonial power, begin taxing, and then the declaration occurs and the war begins