The number of states needed to vote yes to ratify the Constitution.
What is 9
100
Those people who supported ratifying the Constitution
What is Federalists?
100
The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
The three branches of the national government
What is legislative, executive and judicial?
200
Power is divided between the national government and state and local governments, it is an American invention
What is Federalism?
200
A bicameral legislature has this many houses.
What is 2
200
Took place from May 1787-Sept 1787 to form the new US government under the Constitution
What is Constitutional Convention?
200
The absence of laws
What is anarchy?
300
Headed by one person, such as a king or queen, who has supreme authority
What is a monarchy?
300
Form of government in which one person, or small group, holds unlimited power over the citizens
What is dictatorship?
300
The power of the Supreme Court to declare a government act or law unconstitutional
What is judicial review?
300
Adopted on July 4, 1776 to declare the colonies were now free from British rule
What is Declaration of Independence?
300
Any law or government act that violates the US Constitution
What is unconstitutional?
400
The process by which government makes and carries out its decisions
What is politics?
400
The power to enforce your own laws
What is sovereignty?
400
Also known as the "Great Charter"
What is the Magna Carta?
400
Written Nov 11, 1620 to set up the government of the Pilgrim settlement.
What is Mayflower Compact?
400
Form of government a monarch acts as a head of state, but the real power lies with the elected officials
What is constitutional monarchy?
500
A form of government that uses a small group of representatives that are chosen by voters to act on their behalf, also known as representative democracy
What is a Republic?
500
Each branch of the government can limit the power of the others
What is checks and balances?
500
Created the first central government of the US, major weakness was foreign policy
What is Articles of Confederation?
500
Government is created by and can be changed by the will of the people
What is popular sovereignty?
500
Made up of the institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people