Enlightenment Thinkers
This philosopher believed in natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
The first three words of the Constitution show the principle of popular sovereignty.
What is “We the People”?
Congress is made up of these two houses.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This person is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.
Who is the President?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
Montesquieu is most famous for this idea about government.
What is separation of powers?
The Great Compromise solved a debate about what?
Representation in Congress between big and small states
How many senators represent each state?
What is two?
The president can make treaties, but this group must approve them.
What is the Senate?
This 1803 case gave the courts the power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Rousseau argued that people agree to give up some freedoms in exchange for protection. What is this called
What is the social contract?
Name three of the seven principles of the Constitution.
Any three: popular sovereignty, separation of powers, limited government, federalism, republicanism, checks and balances, individual rights
A proposed law is called this before it is signed by the president.
What is a bill?
These are official instructions the president can issue without Congress.
What are executive orders?
Judges on the Supreme Court serve for how long?
What is life / lifetime appointment?
Voltaire fought for this freedom, which is also protected in the 1st Amendment.
What is freedom of speech/religion?
This clause in Article I gives Congress flexibility to make necessary laws
What is the Elastic Clause?
House members serve for ___ years; Senators serve for ___ years.
What is 2 years; 6 years
The president can forgive crimes through this power.
What is a pardon?
Give one type of case the federal courts can hear.
Constitutional issues, federal law, treaties, disputes between states, cases with the U.S. government.
Jefferson’s phrase “consent of the governed” in the Declaration was inspired by which Enlightenment thinker?
Who is John Locke?
What document had to be added to the Constitution to gain Anti-Federalist support?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Give one reason why the Elastic Clause has been controversial.
It allows Congress to stretch power / debate over limits of federal power.
Why can’t the president declare war?
Because that power belongs to Congress.
One limit on the judicial branch is that it has no ____.
What is enforcement power?