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Powers that are specifically given to Congress and denied to the states, such as the power to coin money or declare war.
What are delegated powers?
100
The year in which the Constitutional Convention met.
What is 1787?
100
Madison's proposal to have two houses in the legislative branch, both of which would have state representation based on population
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
Supporters of the Constitution were called this
What are the Federalists?
100
The Preamble to the Constitution states six of these:
What are the goals of the government?
200
Powers that are shared by the federal and state governments, for example, the power to levy taxes, establish courts, and to borrow money.
What are concurrent powers?
200
The city in which the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is Philadelphia?
200
William Paterson's proposal to have a one-house legislature in which each state would have equal votes.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
200
The strongest Anti-Federalist voice
Who was Patrick Henry?
200
Article 1 and Article 2 describe the plans for these two branches of the government.
What are the legislative and executive branches?
300
Powers that the Constitution neither gives to Congress nor denies to the states, for example, the authority to establish schools and to form police groups
What are reserved powers?
300
The main author of the Constitution
Who was James Madison?
300
Roger Sherman's proposal, eventually adopted at the Convention, to have a bicameral legislature with one house, the Senate, having equal representation of the states, and the other, the House of Representatives, in which representation would be based on population
What is the Great Compromise?
300
This article describes how the Constitution can be amended (changed).
What is Article 5?
400
The division of power between the states and the federal, or national, government
What is federalism?
400
The presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention
Who was George Washington?
400
The agreement to count each slave as a fraction of a person, for the purposes of counting a state's population
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
400
Besides James Madison, the other two main authors of the Federalist Papers
Who were Alexander Hamilton and John Jay?
400
Article 6 describes the Constitution as this.
What is "the supreme law of the land"?
500
Montesquieu's proposal for dividing government power among three branches: legislative, judicial, and executive
What is the separation of powers?
500
The oldest person at the Constitutional Convention
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
500
The Federalists agreed to propose this, which convinced a lot of Americans to support the Constitution
What is a bill of rights?
500
The Anti-Federalists were concerned about this clause in the Constitution, which was intended to give the Congress flexibility to do it work and change with the times.
What is the "necessary and proper" clause, or the elastic clause?
500
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
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