PSC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Due Process Clause, Supremacy Clause, Connecticut Compromise

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSC 101
• Professor: Mr. Joseph R Matheson

Document Summary

Subjects addressed on exam 1: policies and leaders, they require: accurate information rule, *people have the ability/are capable to rule themselves* Self-rule deals with a nation being ruled by the citizens. Minority holds power - monarchy, oligarchy, autocracy. If people are to form authentic rational opinions about public. Core ideas of democracy - political liberty, social contract, majority. Benchmarks of democracy, 6 conditions of popular sovereignty. Theory on the effects of low civic participation- book specifics. New jersey plan vs virginia plan = connecticut compromise. Articles of confederation - chief executive was missing. Madison and what he said about separation of powers and why it. 17th amendment - what did it change. Original purpose of the 1787 meeting in philadelphia - edit the. Articles were so weak that it could not prevent the states from. Nullification- states do not follow a law - declare it unconstitutional leaving the union or entering into commercial/trade warfare.