17. A group of people wanted the Constitution to include the Bill of Rights.
What is the AntiFederalist?
100
4. The division of powers between the national government and the states.
What is Federal system?
100
7. The president can check Congress.
What is vetoing?
100
The 2nd Amendment
What is the right to bear arms?
200
10. The central government authority under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Congress?
200
5. The book of essays explaining and supporting the Constitution.
What is The Federalist Papers?
200
6. The movement that influenced the Constitution's architects.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
24. Responsible for electing the President and Vice President.
What is Electoral College?
200
Ensures the to life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law.
What is the 5th Amendment?
300
11. Law that established a plan for dividing the federally owned lands west of the Application Mountains.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785
300
Name One Federalist and One Antifederalist.
What is George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay or Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, Richard Henry Lee, Melancton Smith?
300
14. Two important British documents, the ____________________ and the English Bill of Rights, influenced the Framers of the United States Constitution.
What is Magna Carta?
300
29. A president who has been impeached.
What is Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton?
300
Amendment 8.
What is Protects against excessive bail, or cruel or unusual punishment.
400
13. Uprising of Massachusetts farmers who wanted lower taxes and showed need for a strong national government.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
18. Large landowners support the Federalist?
What is because they wanted Wanted protection of property?
400
3. Under the federal system, the final authority
What is Constitution?
400
28. Who the President appoints.
What is The Cabinet, Supreme Court Justices, and Ambassadors?
400
Amendment 4.
What is Protects against “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
500
12. The government of the Confederation could not pay its debts because it lacked this power.
What is to Levy Taxes from the States?
500
“The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it. . . . Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength and to act in unison with each other. . . .” –Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper Number 10, November 23, 1787
8. In this passage, James Madison states that the larger the society, the _____ probable it is that the _____ of the citizens will find a reason to violate the rights of other citizens.
What is less, majority?
500
9. Study the chart. Which major principle of the constitution addresses the issue of free speech?
What is individual rights?
500
25. The Number of Votes a state has in the Electoral College is determined by.
What is the number of representatives plus the number of senators?
500
Providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states and to the people.