A - Test/Slide
Supporters of the constitution agreed to add this in order to win the ratification of the Constitution.
(The first 10 amendments)
What is the Bill of Rights?
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay were considered __?
Who are Federalists?
The President may reject any act of Congress known as what?
The first article established the legislative branch known as what?
What is Congress?
The executive branch does what?
What is Enforces laws?
The purpose of this written article was to persuade the ratifying convention in New York to approve the Constitution.
What is The Federalist Papers?
Who are the Framers?
In a presidential system, these basic powers are distributed - separated - among 3 distinct and independent branches of the government.
This concept is known as what?
Massachusetts farmers who rebelled when the state began to foreclose on their farms to collect debts, and obtain the debtors.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Brought the light of reason to everything they studied and their movement became known as what?
What is Enlightenment
They believed that the amending of the Constitution would establish a central government just as oppressive as the British government had been.
Who was the Anti-Federalist?
There is a third group of powers that are actually shared by state governments and the federal government. This is known as what?
They are tied together by a complex system of what?
This means that each branch is subject to a number of constitutional checks, or restraints, by the other branches.
What is checks and balances
There are two per state, and under the first article - congress.
Who are Senators?
The Legislative branch does what?
What is Makes Laws?
The principle of what is the division of power among a central government and several regional governments - came to the Constitution out of both experience and necessity.
The Framers faced a number of difficult problems, not the least of them: How to build a new, stronger, more effective National Government while preserving the existing States and the concept of local self-government.
What is Federalism?
The principles of what, holds that no government is all powerful.
What is limited government?
In the US election, voters do not vote directly for the president but for members of the what, who are then expected to vote directly for the president based on vote numbers.
What is Electoral College?
Congress can remove the President from office for misconduct by?
What is Impeachment?
The number per state depends on the population size of the state?
What is House of Representatives?
This person recommended that the new national government would have a separation of powers between three independent branches.
He was an Enlightenment thinker.
Who was Montesquieu
One aspect of the principle of checks and balances is of such importance in the American constitutional system that it stands by itself, as one of that system’s basic principles.
The power of what is defined as the power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action.
It is held by all federal courts and by most State courts as well.
What is Judicial Review?
This was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln. It set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.” The president signed the bill into law on July 2, 1862
A king or queen holds all of the powers of government (two words).
What is absolute monarchy?
The Constitution would come into force once it was?
What is ratified?