Question | Answer |
The power to govern comes from the people | Popular sovereignty |
The people elect representatives to make laws and conduct government | republicanism |
The powers of the national government are distributed among three branches of government | Separation of powers |
The President and all other government officials must obey the law like all American citizens | Limited Government |
Power is divided between a central government and smaller political units, such as states | Federalism |
Each branch of government can exercise checks, or controls over the other branches | Checks and balances |
Guarantee of personal liberties and rights | Individual rights |
The chief executive of the federal government | President |
The legislative branch of government is called | Congress |
The highest court of the judicial branch is called | the Supreme Court |
Laws for the United States are made by | Congress |
The number of representatives a state gets depends on | the number of people it has |
Tax bills may only be written by | the House of Representatives |
Congress may override a President's veto by | 2/3 vote of both houses |
Questions about interpreting the Constitution are settled by | the Supreme Court |
The courts may not take a person's life or put in jail without | due process |
Invoking the Fifth Amendment means that an accused person | refuses to testify against themself |
Which two groups make up the Congress | Senate and House of Representatives |
How are members of the Supreme Court and other high offices chosen | appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate |
The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional is an example of | checks and balances |
The fifteenth amendment gave which group the right to vote | Black men |
Judicial review is when | the Supreme Court decides the Constitutionality of a law |
The Bill of Rights guarantees | individual rights |
In 1787 Congress established a system for creating new states from western territories | Through the Northwest Ordinance |
One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that it could not | Levy taxes |
One weakness of the Articles of Confederation
is that it gave | states more power than the federal government |
Daniel Shays rebellion showed | the weakness of the federal government under the |
The significance of the Northwest Ordinance was that it | created a process for the orderly growth of the new nation |
The only success of the Articles of Confederation was that | it created the Northwest Ordinance |
The Virginia Plan wanted representation | based upon population |
The New Jersey Plan wanted representation | based on each state having the same number of representatives |
The Virginia Plan was favored by | the large states |
The New Jersey Plan was favored by | the smaller states |
The Great Compromise settled the differences between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan | by having two houses in Congress |
The two houses of Congress are | the Senate and the House of Representatives |
In the House of Representatives members are numbered by the state's | population |
In the Senate the number of members is | equal for each state |
The 3/5 Compromise counted slaves | as 3/5 for population figures |