Constitution
This is the subject(s) of the first three articles of the Constitution.
What are Congress, the presidency, and the federal courts (judiciary)?
This type of election normally attracts the greatest number of voters.
What are presidential elections?
This was an important argument against the proposed Constitution.
What is it did not guarantee basic rights?
This is how many members are in the U.S. Congress
What is 535 members?
This is the main purpose of a political party.
What is control government by winning elections?
This was a meeting of delegates in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation
What the Constitutional Convention?
They are responsible for nominating those who will for run public office.
What are political parties?
The Anti-Federalist agreed to support the new Constitution if these were added.
What is the Bill of Rights/adding amendments to protect basic rights?
The Bill of Rights are a list of these
What are basic freedoms and rights?
According to the DOI, this is why the colonists were justified in ending their political connections with Great Britain.
What is they were denied their basic rights?
He is known as "The father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?
This is a synonym for the word suffrage.
What is franchise?
The Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan disagreed on this issue
What is how the states should be represented in Congress?
This was the largest group of disenfranchised citizens in the 1920's despite the 15th amendment
Who were African Americans?
In the DOI, the list of grievances was a list of complaints against this person.
Who was the British King?
The U.S. Constitution requires a person to be this age in order to become President of the United States.
What is 35 years old?
This group was the only group allowed to vote in 1789.
What were white, male property land owners?
This is what the first three articles of the Constitution address?
What is the organization of the national government?
These were designed and created to keep certain groups of voters such as African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos from voting.
What were literacy test?
These papers were written in order to gain support for a strong central government
What were the Federalist Papers?
This was the 1st Constitution of the United States
What were the Articles of Confederation?
These are the three universal requirements for voting in the United States
What are citizenship, residency, and age?
Under what Constitutional authority do Presidents use military forces in combat without a formal declaration of war from Congress?
What is the power of commander in chief?
According the the 24th Amendment, no state can do this
What is require a payment of any tax as a condition for voting for President...Poll Tax
This power of the Supreme Court is not listed in the Constitution but comes about from the case of Marbury v Madison (1803)
What is Judicial Review?