Powers and Rights in the Constitution
What are the first ten amendments of the Constitution called?
What system did Madison suggest to keep the federal government balanced.
What is the Separation of Powers?
How many States were required to make any national laws under the Articles?
What is nine?
What system of power places power in the hands of the people, with a Constitution as the ultimate power?
What is a Republic?
What system, for presidential elections, gives each state a certain number of votes, based on their population, instead of having a popular vote?
What is the electoral college?
What are Implied powers?
What are powers that are not specified in the Constitution but given regardless?
What is a group that puts their own interests above the interests/rights of others?
What are factions?
How many branches of Government were active during the Articles of Confederation?
What is one?
What system has each citizen vote on every issue with no representatives?
What is direct democracy?
Who had the right to vote as the time of the signing of the Constitution?
What are powers that the Constitution designate to the State government instead of the Federal government?
What are Reserved powers?
What is it called when each branch of the Government has power over eachother.
Who was in charge of waging war under the Articles?
What is Congress?
What is popular sovereignty?
What is the idea that the government and its leaders are created and legitimatized by the people?
What agreement states that enslaved Africans were worth less than white citizens, and changed how electoral votes were distributed?
What was the three-fifths compromise?
What rights were built into Constitution, that gave powers to the branches of government
What are Enumerated Rights?
What where the dangers of factions?
What is the tyranny of the majority?
What event showed how ineffective the Articles of Confederation?
What was Shays Rebellion?
What system combines direct democracy and representative democracy by having citizens give their input on policy issues as they are being discussed?
What is participatory democracy?
What agreement created two houses of Congress?
What was the Great Compromise?
What is the system where power is divided between State and Federal government, with clearly defined terms and low interference. (Hint: Not just Federalism)
What is dual federalism?
What were the two solutions to factions given in Federalist 51
What is removing the cause, liberty, or controlling the effects, by having many different groups.
What were the two main reasons for trade difficulty among states?
What is a system where multiple groups, not the people as a whole, hold power?
What is a pluralist democracy?
What last minute addition got the Anti-Federalists to approve of the Constitution and got it ratified throughout the country?
What is the Bill of Rights?