Constitution
The supreme law of the land in the United States
What is the Constitution?
The term that denotes 3 branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
What year was the Constitution written?
When is 1787?
Who wrote the Constitution?
Who is James Madison?
The Constitution limits the power of government.
What is Limited Government?
The first 3 words of the Constitution, which capture the idea of self-government
What are, "We the People?"
The branch of government Article I of the Constitution deals, which makes laws, is
What is the Legislative Branch?
Who has the ability to make federal laws
What is Congress or the Legislative branch?
The Virginia plan called for Representation based on population, also known as
What is the large state plan?
Freedoms in the Bill of Rights.
What is Individual Rights?
An addition or change to the Constitution
What is an amendment?
The Article II in the Constitution defines the branch of government who Enforces the law.
What is the Executive Branch?
What are the names of the two houses of Congress?
What are the House of Representatives & the Senate?
New Jersey's plan for Representation being equal, also known as..
What the small state plan?
Each branch can check or stop the other 2 branches.
What is Checks and Balances?
The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
System the founding fathers put in place to keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful allowing one branch to check another branch.
What is Checks & Balances?
What percent of Congress is required to propose an Amendment?
What is 2/3 votes?
The Compromise that allowed the South to count slaves in the population.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
The "people rule" by voting.
What is popular soveignty?
The number of amendments in the Constitution
What is 27?
Which branch of the government interprets the Constitution?
What is the Judicial branch?
What is the percent of states required to ratify an Amendment?
What is 3/4?
The title of the person who is in charge of the Executive branch?
Who is the President?
The best form of government is a republic, the people elect representatives, "representative government".
What is Republicanism?
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Which branch of government is bi-cameral (2 houses)?
What is Congress or the Legislative Branch?
How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
What is 9?
The Principals of Government that the founding fathers used to limit the power of government.
What is Separation of Power and Checks and Balances?
Each branch of government has a different job.
What is Separation of Powers?
The first major compromise made when the Constituion was written.
What is the Great Compromise
The Judicial Branch interprets law to determine if they are
What is "constitutional"?
What is the highest court in our judicial branch?
What is the Supreme Court?
The number of Senators in Congress.
What is 100?
Power is divided between national and state government.
What is Federalism?