Constitutional Principles
This branch of government is responsible for making and creating the laws.
This early document established that law comes from the people and that people must obey laws made by the group.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This vocabulary term means a legislature made up of "two houses"
What is Bicameral?
Was the fact that Congress could negotiate treaties considered a strength or a weakness of the Articles?
What is a STRENGTH?
This branch of government ENFORCES the laws.
What is the executive branch?
A presidential veto of a law or Congress impeaching the president are examples of this principle.
Prohibiting cruel punishments and excessive fines for small crimes to establish limited government comes from this document.
What is the Magna Carta?
This agreement at the Constitutional Convention resolved the representation dispute between large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
Was the requirement that ALL states had to approve new laws a strength or a weakness of the Articles?
What is a WEAKNESS? *Too difficult to pass new laws/amendments*
This branch of government INTERPRETS the laws.
What is the Judicial branch?
Only Congress can make this laws....is an example of this principle.
What is separation of powers?
This historical document gave us the idea of separation of powers and protected democratic elections.
What is the English Bill of Rights
Under the Great Compromise, representation in the House of Representatives was based on this.
A major economic weakness under the Articles was that individual states did this..
What is "coined their own money/currency?"
Give an example of Federalism.
Answer may vary.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
What is federalism?
"We whose names are underwritten...do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic...for the general good of the Colony"
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Both the Great Compromise and the 3/5 Compromise share this major outcome in common.
What is "determining representation in Congress?"
Name two strengths and two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is
Strength-congress makes treaties/Northwest Ordinance
Weakness-All states must approve laws/amendments/No executive branch/states coined their own money
Prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment and excessive fines for small crimes is an example of this Constitutional principle...
What is limited government? (Magna Carta)
"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives"
What is separation of powers?
"A freeman shall not be amerced for a slight offense, except in accordance with the degree of the offense; and for a grave offense he shall be amerced in accordance with the gravity of the offense…none of the aforesaid amercements shall be imposed except by the oath of honest men of the neighborhood."
What is the Magna Carta?
These are the amount(s) of members in the SENATE and the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES.
"The said territory, and the States which may be formed therein, shall forever remain a part of this Confederacy of the United States of America, subject to the Articles of Confederation, and to such alterations therein as shall be constitutionally made; and to all the acts and ordinances of the United States in Congress assembled, conformable thereto."
This excerpt is from the...
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
"The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish."
This excerpt from the Constitution illustrates which Constitutional principle?
What is Checks and Balances?