Types of Governments
A King or Queen with total power over the country.
What is an absolute monarchy?
The Constitutional Convention was held in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
The articles of Confederation made the federal government very weak, and gave most of the power to the _____.
What are States?
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This term, literally meaning "I reject," describes what the President can do to bills sent to them by Congress that they do not like.
A government where all the power is in one person's hands.
What is an autocracy?
This man was unanimously elected to be the President of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
Under the Articles of Confederation, this many states had to agree to a law for it to pass.
What is 9?
This branch of government consists of the Supreme Court and all the lower courts.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The Supreme Court is not elected. Instead, this person appoints Supreme Court justices, and Congress can vote to approve that decision.
Who is the President?
This form of government comes from a Greek word meaning "rule of the people."
What is democracy?
This man proposed having three branches of government, and came up with the Virginia Plan.
Who is James Madison?
What is Bicameral?
This branch of government consists of the President, Vice President, and the agencies that enforce the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
This fraction of Congress has to vote in favor of a bill to override a President's veto.
What is 2/3?
What is a Dictatorship?
What is the Great Compromise?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This branch of government is the only one the Constitution gives the power to declare war.
What is the Legislative Branch?
If the Supreme Court declares that a law is this, it no longer has any force, and nobody can be punished for it again.
What is Unconstitutional?
A type of government where a small, elite group has all the power.
What is an oligarchy?
What is a Bill of Rights?
The Constitution was signed and ratified in this year.
What is 1787?
This branch of government controls the government's money, including taxes and the budget.
What is the Legislative Branch / Congress?
If the President or Supreme Court Justices do something illegal or deeply wrong, Congress may use this power to remove them from office.
What is Impeachment?