Exam 2 Flashcards
Inalienable Rights:
Rights given by god, which government MAY not take away
Life
The right to make a living
Liberty:
The Right to made choices
Pursuit of Happiness:
Following a path that is most likely to have a positive outcome
Social Contracts:
Men enter into society for security of life, liberty, and property. A living, breathing thing that can be modified or nullified.
Monroe Doctrine:
America wont interfere in European or European colonial affairs, and European intervention in independent Western Hemispheric affairs would be considered an act of war.
Judicial Review:
Guarantees that laws passed by individual states or congress met the intensions of the constitution
Charter
A Contract granting authority and rights
Triangle Trade:
A system of domestic production like a Triangle, where South produced Raw Materials, North manufacturing, and food production in the west (inland),
Electoral College:
The combined congressional delegation of each state shall chose the president and the vice president based upon the popular vote.
Judiciary Act (1789):
Set the Supreme Court 6 Justices, 13 district courts, and 3 circuit Courts of appeal.
Louisiana Purchase:
Jefferson purchased the land between Mississippi and The Rocky Mountains from France for 15,000,000 dollars, even though it was unconstitutional to acquire territory.
Treaty of Greenville:
The treaty established a boundary between American Indian territory and lands open to European-American Settlers.
identify the five Marshall court cases
- Marbury vs. Madison,
- Fletcher vs. Peck (1810),
- McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819),
- Dartmouth College vs. Woodward (1819),
- Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824).