What is the division of power between federal, state, and local governments.
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This was the first Constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
This was your amendment.
Answers may vary.
100
What is the significance of New Hampshire ratifying the Constitution?
What is it was the 9th state to do so, which made the Constitution legal.
100
This word refers to a person who has absolute rule and does not take the peoples' wants into consideration.
What is tyrant/tyranny?
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What are three types of power the federal government has?
What are expressed, implied, and inherent.
200
Give one example of powers the U.S. government did not have.
Answers may vary, no taxes, can't trade, no army, no courts, no executive branch, etc.
200
The Constitution has this many Amendments.
What is 27
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This was the first state to ratify the Constitution
What is Delware?
200
This is the idea that the government's power comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
What powers are neither mentioned specifically for the federal government nor denied to the states (ie what powers are shared by the federal and state governments)?
What are concurrent powers.
300
Why was the first U.S. Constitution made intentionally weak?
What is the makers didn't want to have too strong of a government?
300
This preserves many rights to United States citizens, including the right to a trial by jury, due process, and the right to bear arms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
This article states that Constitution is the highest law of the land and no other laws are higher than it.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
300
This system makes certain that no one branch of government can become too powerful over the other two.
What is checks and balances?
400
Who are reserved powers reserved for?
What are the states.
400
These people did not want ratification of the Constitution because they feared the government would be too strong and they demanded a Bill of Rights be added.
Who are antifederalists?
400
How many states are needed to ratify an amendment?
What is 38 or 3/4.
400
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution states that Congress may stretch its authority if deemed necessary, and also goes by this name.
What is the Elastic Clause (or Necessary and Proper clause)
400
He is leading the Republican primary right now.
Who is Mitt Romney?
500
What is one way federalism promotes the public good?
What is providing central authority, dividing power, and
500
The three British governmental documents that the U.S. based their ideas of limited and representative government on.
What are the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and the English Bill of Rights
500
Why are there so few amendments?
It is difficult to pass them because they can't represent passing trends?
500
This was the resolution to the Constitutional Convention, it combined the ideas of the New Jersey and Virginia plans, and laid the structure for how our government is set up today.
What is the Great Compromise, or Connecticut Plan?
500
The United States today (and since 1789) has a Federal system of government, but from 1781-1789, it had this system of government.