True or False: The Preamble lists the 5 purposes of government.
What is False; it lists 6.
100
True or False: The Anti-Federalists opposed the Constitution.
What is True.
100
What are the three branches of government laid out in the first 3 articles of the Constitution?
What is the Legislative, Executive and Judicial.
100
True or False: Reserved powers are the powers that both the state and federal governments share.
What is False; reserved are just for the state while concurrent is for both.
100
Is this an enumerated, concurrent or reserved power?
Make and enforce laws
What is Concurrent.
200
What does the word "posterity" mean in the Preamble when it says "secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity"?
What is desecndents or future generations.
200
What does the term federal refer to? (Hint: you cannot use the term federal in your answer)
What is the central/national government.
200
Which of the 3 branches "interprets the laws"?
What is the Judicial.
200
What is federalism?
What is a form of government in which power is divided between the federal government and the states.
200
Who has the power to veto a law?
What is the president.
300
Where does the government's power come from?
What is the people.
300
Who would say this statement; a Federalist or Anti-Federalist?
"The Constitution gives the federal government enough power to overpower the states."
What are the Anti-Federalists.
300
Who is the head of the executive branch?
What is the president.
300
What is the difference between expressed/enumerated and implied powers?
What is expressed/enumerated are clearly stated, while implied not expressly stated.
300
What is the rule of law?
What is the principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern.
400
Define the term "popular sovereignty"?
What is a government that receives its power from the people.
400
Fill in the blanks:
In the end, the ___________ gave in and agreed to add ten ____________ to the Constitution.
What is the Federalists and amendments.
400
Fill in the blanks:
The __________ branch makes the laws, but the __________ branch can declare those laws unconstitutional.
What is the Legislative and Judicial.
400
Name two concurrent powers that the federal and state governments share.
What are:
Protect public health and safety
Collect taxes
Build roads
Borrow money
Establish courts
Make and enforce laws
400
What are the three parts of the Constitution?
What is:
The Preamble
The Articles
The Amendments
500
Explain the major difference between "insure domestic tranquility" and "provide for the common defense"?
What is insuring domestic tranquility means here at "home" in our nation and providing for common defense is against outside attacks.
500
Who would say this statement; a Federalist or Anti-Federalist?
"Nothing in the Constitution says the federal government has power to limit peoples' freedoms in the first place."
What is Federalists.
500
When the Constitution divided the government into 3 branches, they set up a system of ___________________ so that branches are able to restrain the powers of the others.
What is checks and balances.
500
What is the "necessary and proper clause"?
What is that Congress may make any law that is "necessary and proper" for carrying out its expressed powers.
500
What does it mean when the Supreme Court exercises "Judicial review"?
What is that the Supreme Court declares a law unconstitutional.