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Unit I – Constitutional Underpinnings – Chapters 1-3

Keys to GAP success include a solid handle of key terms, people, legislation, and court cases. All IDs must be hand written in your GAP comp book. Typed IDs or IDs on loose leaf paper will NEVER be accepted.

For each of the IDs

A. Provide a brief but comprehensive definition in language YOU understand.

B. A description of why this ID is significant either historically or in a modern context, this is also a place to provide examples or supporting details.

Example of an ID done in an awesome fashion

Necessary and Proper Clause

A. Article I, section I, clause 18 of the Constitution, AKA the Elastic Clause. Congress has the power to make laws that are needed to carry out any enumerated powers. Makes Congress potentially very powerful.

B. Created early controversy between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. First big use- creating Hamilton’s BUS. Later used in New Deal reforms to commerce. McCulloch v. Maryland made it stronger saying the law doesn’t even have to be necessary, just proper.

1. Checks and Balances

2. Commerce Clause

3. Concurrent Powers

4. Connecticut/Great Compromise

5. Constitutional Convention

6. Devolution Revolution

7. Direct/Representative Democracy

8. Elastic Clause

9. Elite and Class Theory

10. Federal Mandate

11. Federalist Papers

12. Full faith and credit

13. Hobbes, Thomas

14. Hyper pluralism

15. Judicial Review/ Marbury v. Madison

16. Locke, John

17. Montesquieu, Baron

18. National Supremacy

19. Pluralist Theory

20. Republic

21. Separation of Powers

22. Shay’s Rebellion

23. Social Contract Theory

24. Supremacy Clause/preemption

25. Three-fifths Compromise

26. Linkage institutions

Follow the instructions for the prompts below, complete sentences are not needed but complete ideas are.

1. Identify the major leaders of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist camps and discuss their major arguments.

2. Summarize Articles I, II, and III of the Constitution.

3. Create a Venn diagram illustrating information on unitary and federal systems of government.

4. Create a T chart showing the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

5. Define and compare expressed, implied, and inherent powers

6. Compare and contrast the New Jersey and Virginia Plans.

7. List two checks that each of the three branches has on the other two branches (see diagram on page 50).

8. Explain how the U.S. Constitution is formally amended (proposal and ratification).

9. Summarize the methods used to informally amend the U.S. Constitution.

10. Compare and contrast Hobbes and Locke’s theories on government and rights when it came to the following: role of government in people’s lives, rights of citizens, and their influence on the founders.

11. Thoroughly explain dual federalism and cooperative federalism in a detailed chart.

12. Compare and contrast four types of grants: categorical, project, formula, and block.

13. Explain the difference between funded and unfunded mandates.

14. Illustrate the policymaking system and explain how the system works.

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