Articles and Committee
This was the name of the governing document before the constitution.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
This is how many senators each state has.
This is how many electoral votes one needs to become president.
What are 270?
Who was George Washington?
Article 1 creates this branch of government.
What is the Legislature?
What was 13?
The number of representatives each state has in the house of representatives is based upon this.
What is population?
This is how many years a presidents serves their term.
What are 4 years?
George Washington created this special board of advisors.
What was the cabinet?
Article 2 creates this branch of government.
What is the Executive?
This was the reason that the federal government had no money.
What was that they could not collect taxes?
This political party is in control of the house and the senate.
What is the democratic party.
The executive has the ability to issues these to get policies done, or to respond to emergencies.
What are executive orders?
Alexander Hamilton wanted to create this institution to help manage American debt.
What was the national bank?
What does the first amendment protect?
What is the freedom of speech, religion, assembly, the press, and the right to petition?
This was the compromise that allowed for both larger and smaller states to get what they want.
What was the adoption of both a house of representatives and a senate?
These are powers given to congress in the constitution.
What are Enumerated powers?
What are 9 justices?
Washington declared this, when the french and the british went to war.
What was neutrality?
What is preserving the rights not listed in the constitutions to the states, and to the people?
This was the rebellion that caused the founders to rethink the articles of confederation.
What was Shay's rebellion?
These are powers that congress has, due to the need they have.
What are implied powers?
The president has a check over the Legislative Branch due to this.
What is a veto?
Washington warned us of these dangers when he left office.
What were political parties and foreign entanglements?
This is the reason that amendments were added to the constitution.
What was the states were worried that the federal governments would violate their rights?