Principles Of The Government
The government can only do what the people allow it to do.
What is Limited Government?
We counted slaves as 3/5 of a person in the population.
What is the Three Fifths Compromise?
They made up the Bill Of Rights.
What are the first 10 amendments?
A change to the Constitution.
What is an Amendment?
Powers granted directly to the national government by the Constitution; another name for expressed powers.
What is Enumerated Powers?
The government split into different branches of the government.
What is Separation of Powers?
Combining the Virginia, and New Jersey Plan to make one plan.
What is the Great Compromise?
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How many Amendments are there?
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
Powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states.
What is Reserved Powers?
The concept that the people hold all of the power.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
A plan that in had 3 branches, and a House of Representative split in 2, and based on population
What is the Virginia Plan?
Need 3/4 of the states or a state convention.
How do you ratify a Amendment?
A law that said new territories and as a plan for admitting new states to the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordnance?
Powers shared by the state and federal governments.
What is Concurrent Powers?
To balance the branches of the government to keep the power even.
What is Checks and Balances?
A plan that had 1 house in the Legislative Branch, and each state had a equal number of people representing them.
The only one out of all the amendments that was ratified through a State Convention.
What was the 21st Amendment?
The first 10 Amendments.
What is the Bill Of Rights?
The clause in Article VI of the Constitution that makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict.
What is Supremacy Clause?
The separation of powers between the National and State governments.
What is Federalism?
A compromise that said the state capital would have 1 vote for the president, and 1 for the vice president.
What is the Electoral Collage?
Tyler's action was formally made part of the Constitution.
What is the 25th Amendment?
People call it the "Supreme Law Of The Land".
What is the Constitution?
Principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern.
What is the Rule Of Law?