What is the group of people who would be named by each state legislature to select the president and vice-president?
What is the Electoral College?
100
Which article outlines the lawmaking powers of the legislative branch?
What is Article I?
100
What is the idea that power lies with the people?
What is popular sovereignty?
100
The basic principles and laws of a nation are outlined in its ___.
What is the Constitution?
100
What are the name of the two houses in Congress (legislative branch)?
House of Representatives and Senate
200
What is another name for Robert Sherman's Connecticut Compromise, which proposed that Congress have two houses that would be structured differently?
What is the Great Compromise?
200
Which Article outline the part of government that interprets the laws and sees that they are fairly applied?
What is Article III?
200
What system allows the executive branch to veto laws?
What is a system of checks and balances?
200
The ___ felt that the Constitution gave too much power to the national government.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
200
The Bill of Rights attached to the first state Constitutions included ideas that could be traced to these two documents: the English Bill of Rights and the ___ ___.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
What is the delegates' plan for counting enslaved persons for determining population?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
300
This article claims a key statement: the Constitution is the "supreme law of the Land."
What is Article VI?
300
What is the division of authority among the three branches of government; each branch can limit the power of the others?
What is the separation of powers?
300
These powers are exercised by both the national and state governments?
What are concurrent powers?
300
I was elected leader of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
400
What plan called for a government similar to the Articles of Confederation, a one-house congress in which states would have equal representation?
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
This article provides for a law-enforcing branch.
What is Article II?
400
Which element of the Constitution reflects the influence of the French philosopher Baron de Montesquieu; he believed in a division of authority?
What is the separation of powers?
400
What is a group of individual states governments joined for a common purpose?
What is a confederation?
400
During ___ __, an armed group of citizens attacked a federal arsenal, protesting the taking of a farm as payment for debts.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
Which plan appealed to delegates from heavily-populated states, in which representation would be based on population?
What is the Virginia Plan?
500
This article specifies under what conditions the Constitution can be changed.
What is Article V?
500
This word means the right to rule.
What is sovereignty?
500
These people supported the Constitution proposed in 1787?
Who are the Federalists?
500
Which important event in American history occurred in 1793 with its signing?