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Vocabulary
100
The Articles of Confederation
What is the first Government created in the United States?
100
How is the way that the president gets voted into the office?
What is the Electoral College?
100
The introduction for the United State Consitution
What is the Preamble
100
Powers reserved for both states and national governments
What is concurrent powers
100
A detailed written plan for the Government
What is a Constitution?
200
What did Shays Rebellion do?
What is the cause that changed the Federalists opinion?
200
What is the way slaves counted toward the population?
What is the Three- Fifths Compromise?
200
The law making branch of the Constitution
What is the Legislative Branch
200
Popular Sovereignty, Limited Government, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, and Federalism
What is the 5 principles of the Government?
200
Who were the people that supported the Constitution?
What is Federalists
300
Congress had no power to regulate trade, collect taxes, or power to enforce laws.
What is a weakness of the Articles of Confederation in the Congress?
300
What was a system that Congress would have two houses—a Senate and a House of Representatives?
What is the Great Compromise?
300
The 27 parts of the Constitution
What is the Amendments
300
Enumerated Powers
What is powers directly given to the national government
300
principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern
What is Rule of law
400
A plan for admitting new states to the union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
400
What is the name of a one house congress and each state could have one equal vote?
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
A vote of two-thirds of the members of Congress
What is the act of Congress to change the Constitution?
400
"the Right to Rule" is...
What is Popular Sovereignty?
400
The clause in Article VI of the Constitution that makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict
What is the Supremacy Clause
500
What were George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison?
What is the names of three different delegates?
500
The bill of rights
What is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution known as?
500
The idea of separation of powers of the branches came from...
What is Baron de Montesquieu
500
A legislature consisting of two parts or houses
What is bicameral?
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