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Saturday, February 23, 2008

AP Government-Chap 3-Key Terms-

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) : Defined commerce powers broadly to encompass every form of commercial activity for the government to regulate
Intergovernmental relations : Representatives working in D.C. for certain interest groups or parties
Privileges and immunities clause : "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilages or immunities of citizens of the United States. " Written by John Bingham
Extradition : The returning of person who commited a crime in another state to that state
Charles Beard : Re-evaluted the founding fatehrs of the United States. Proposed that the Constitution was written to protect the wealthy and had a main goal of economics.
Alexander Hamilton : He created the Federalist party. He had industrial, urban, and financial goals for the United Sates.
James Madison : Wrote "The Federalist Papers" to puch the ratifacation of the Constitution.
Decentralized politics : gives citizens and elected officials more power in public decision making

The Slaughterhouse Cases : Resulted in the ruling that state and national citizenship were not the same thing and privilages and immunities of citizenship of the U.S. were protected, but not for state citizenship
Grants-in-aid : There are four kinds of grants; Categorical, Formula, Project, and Block. The block has the least amount of restrictions while categorical has the mort amount of restrictions on the spending of the grants.