Chapter 5:Articles of Confederation

Chapter 5: Articles of Confederation

Constitution

Constitutional Powers

Federalists vs. Anti-federalists

-Ratification

-Alexander Hamilton

-James Madison

-John Jay

- Protect Individual Clarity

-Patrick Henry

-Edwards Randoff

-Sam Adams

1. Limited Government

-governments power to limited because of consent of the governed.

2.Republicanism

-Representatives of the people run the government.

3.Separation of power

-Legislative branch

-Make laws

-Executive branch

-Enforce laws

-Judicial Branch

-Interpreting laws

4.Checks and Balances

-system of overlapping powers so that no one branch gains too much power. Leg.-Ex-Jud.

5.Federalism

- division of power between state and national government.

6. Popular Sovereignty

-power in the great comes from people.

-No executive branch and no enforcement capabilities.

-Only legislative branch

-In debt and had no money

-Own currency: Some people would use bank currency instead of using the state currency.

House of Representatives

Legislative Branch=Congress

Senate

1. House of representatives

2. Senate

- Elected every two years

-25 years old

-State get reps based on how many people are in their state.

-3/5 compromise: northern states and the southern states= a slave is counted as 3/5 of a person in a population.

-Census every 1000 years.

-Elected every 6 years

-30 years old and every 100 years.

-2 per state

-V.P. is the Pres. of the Senate-only vote in a tie.

-Pres. Pro Tempore- a high ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the Vice president

General Powers

Congress Can't

-Taxation: Coin money-punish counterfeiters.

-Copyrights: generally deal with intellectual pieces: books, trademark names, and phrases.

- Patents=how something is made and inventions that someone made.

-Declare war

-Elastic Clause: "necessary and proper clause,"=flexibility

-Suspect Habeas Corpas

-They can not throw anyone in jail unless they have charged them with a crime.

-Pass a Bill of Attainder: They have a trial in order to find them guilty.

-Pass an Ex Post Facto Law: If you do something illegal in another state and it is legal here you won't get in trouble.

-President: serves 4 year terms