Ssg Quiz 2

Review Questions for Mid-Term 1) What constitutional clause allows laws enacted by the federal government to take priority over conflicting state laws?

However, this embargo in contrast to out-of-state discrimination does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to protect state citizens, as long as the power is exercised evenly and equally. For example, if a state wanted to weigh commercial vehicles on its highways to ensure they did not exceed maximum weight, that feat would be permissible if the trucks came from out of state, as long as the requirement applied equally to all trucks on that state’s highways ("The Commerce, Taxing, and Spending Clauses,"

The facts of this case is the Ojibwe Indians were entitled to the treaty rights and the rights were not extinguished when Minnesota was admitted as a state in 1958. (Cheeseman H. R. 2013, pp. 16)

This concept would be known to be Popular Sovereignty. The Kansas – Nebraska Act would perform in somewhat contradictory ways to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, but simultaneously taking its concepts into consideration. But, this act would come at a heavy price of violence between Kansas settlers about pro-slavery and anti-slavery views. However, the act would also instill debates upon whether or not Texas would be a free or slave state. Being annexed would stir up controversy on the topic. Either way decided, free or slave, it would make the U.S. have an unbalance of free and slave states.

Signed on February 2, 1848, in Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed by the U.S. and Mexico. The United States appointed Nicholas P. Trist, a citizen of the United States and the Mexican Republic has appointed Don Luis Gonzaga Cuevas, Don Bernardo Couto, and Don Miguel Atristain. This Treaty, brought to an end the Mexican American War. Bringing peace between the two countries. The U.S. called for Mexico to cede 55% of its territory, extending the boundaries of the United States by over 525,000 sq/m. This newly acquired land is what is known as present day Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado,and Wyoming. In exchange for this land, Mexico received a $15 million compensation.

Another rising issue facing congress, California -- a territory that had grown tremendously with the gold rush of 1849, had recently petitioned Congress to enter the Union as a free state. Should this be allowed? Ever since the Missouri Compromise, the balance between slave states and free states had been maintained; any proposal that threatened this balance would almost certainly not win approval.

**c. If there is a conflict between a state statute and a federal statute, the federal statute

The jurisdictional requirement, in Idaho, that parties enter a bilateral agreement, requiring both sides to sign the

B. However these promotions and ideas were only a cover-up of that the “governor got them to sign a deed for their land without their knowledge”. The chief’s considerer it out of consideration to that it was not in their power to do any such thing without consent from other nations.

Article Four of the Constitution details matters that do with statehood, and the relationship between states and their federal government. It is popular for the Full Faith and Credit Clause, which makes records in one state available and active in other states—the most popular example being marriage. It also details the process of gaining statehood. In my opinion, the Article does not detail the exit of a state because once a state gained statehood, there was no turning back. Were this the case, history would detail two dates of admission for states that later formed the Confederacy. Even now, there have been many states wanted the opportunity to

3b. Which amendment states that the powers not specifically delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states?

Furthermore, the “ subjectmatters of the combination and the combination itself are not excluded from the scope of the act as being matters of intrastate commerce and subject to state control.”

The Moultrie Creek Treaty contained three articles worth noting. Article no. 2 poorly attempted to define the boundaries for the Indian homeland: “The Florida tribes of Indians will hereafter be concentrated and confined to the following metes and boundaries: commencing five miles north of … Okehumke, running in a direct line to a point five miles west of Setarky's settlement, on the waters of Amazura, … At that time, Alachua County blocked its access to the Gulf. Article no. 6 of the treaty stated: “An agent, sub-agent, and interpreter, shall be appointed, to reside within the Indian boundary aforesaid, to watch over the interests of said tribes; and the United States further stipulate, as an evidence of their humane policy towards said tribes …”.

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, ceding to the U.S. government much of their land in Iowa

Krasner discusses the issues with addressing transitioning between governments when nations are on the verge or have collapsed. Krasner begins in the first section of the reading be discussing what national building is like in collapsed states. He discusses that the idea is for the external actors, to aid the local authorities but still allowing to move towards the idea conventional sovereignty. These external actors are to have limited amount of power in these nations and are only there to ensure that the nation is able to stand on it own feet. But his system is one that is aged and one that is aiding the disfunction that is found in these nations fed by the idea of conventional sovereignty. The idea of conventional sovereignty is on that is built on the fact the world is compromised of many states that are self and well governed and recognized as such.