Preamble & Principles
This principle is reflected by the phrase "We the People."
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This was the first national government of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This compromise created a House based on population and a Senate with equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
These essays were written to convince New York to ratify the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
These are the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This philosopher greatly influenced the American colonists with ideas about natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
Under the Articles, Congress lacked this important power.
What is the power to tax?
This rebellion exposed weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
These people feared the new national government would become too powerful.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
The House does this, while the Senate does this, during impeachment.
What is impeach; remove?
This agreement says people consent to government in exchange for protection of their natural rights.
What is the Social Contract?
This type of legislature existed under the Articles.
What is a unicameral legislature?
This compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Hamilton argued that one executive was better because one person could respond faster to crises and was easier to control.
What is the argument for a single executive?
This principle divides government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
The Declaration of Independence was influenced by these three ideas.
What are natural rights, social contract, and representative government?
This convention was called because of the weaknesses of the Articles.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Large states favored this plan based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The addition of this helped win support for ratification.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This democratic model emphasizes broad citizen participation in government.
What is Participatory Democracy?
Under the Articles, each state had this many votes in Congress.
What is one vote?
Southern states gained more influence in this presidential selection system because of the Three-Fifths Compromise.
What is the Electoral College?
Madison argued in Federalist No. 10 that a large republic would control this.
What are factions?
This fraction of states is required to ratify a constitutional amendment.
What is three-fourths?