Constitution
Washington - Adams
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Jefferson
Everything???
100

The first ten amendments to the Constitution are referred to as these

What is the Bill of Rights?

100

Washington was of this political party officially

What is no political party!?

100

This is one example of the unwritten constitution

What are the formation of political parties or the presidential cabinet?

100

TJ and the DRs had mostly this view of the Constitution

What is a strict interpretation/construction?

100

These are the first two political parties in the US

What are the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans?

200

This states that all states need to obey federal law and the constitution

What is the supremacy clause?

200

Washington used this power to put down the Whiskey Rebellion

What is his power as commander in chief?

200

This is something that the president can do that has the force of law

What is an executive order?

200

Jefferson disagreed with the Alien and Sedition acts because of this

What is they targeted DRs/violated first amendment?

200

This is the number one importance of Marbury v Madison

What is judicial review/ determining laws con or uncon?

300

Federalism is...

What is the division of power between state and federal governments?

300

This is one result of the Whiskey Rebellion for the Federal Government?

What is president will enforce law, fed is stronger because has power to tax, violent rebellion will be put down by the Fed?

300

Other than a veto and override, this is another example of checks and balances

What is ratifying a treaty, senate approving supreme court justices, judicial review, impeachment?

300

Adams and Jefferson obeyed these two parts of GW's farewell address by avoiding getting involved in the French Revolution. These are the two parts that mattered...

What is neutrality and what is no treaties/entanglements with other countries?

300

This is why Southern states disliked Alexander Hamilton's financial plan

What is the Southern states already paid off their debts/only benefitted the North?

400

This is why separation of powers is important (and included in the Constitution)

What is to prevent a tyranny, or to prevent one branch from consolidating power?

400

This was the main reason for Hamilton's excise tax on Whiskey

What is to help pay off the national debt?

400

This is the part of government that impeaches government officials, like the president (be specific!)

What is the House of Representatives?

400

Jefferson was against Hamilton's assumption plan, which was this

What is taking on state and private debt by the federal government with the goal of paying it off through taxation?

400

This is what nullification means/does

What is the right of a state to cancel/void/ignore a federal law that they deem unconstitutional?

500

If the federal government does not have the power to do something, this group can

What are the state governments?

500

The theory of nullification was created in these documents

What are the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?

500

The is what the Northwest Ordinance did

What is allowed a path for statehood to territories (create new states)?

500

Jefferson used this power of the presidency to get the Louisiana territory

What is his treaty-making power?

500

Hamilton and congress used this part of the Constitution to pass the national bank

What is the elastic clause?

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