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The sharing of powers between the federal and state governments
What is federalism?
100
The system in which each brand of government has a check on the other branches so that no one branch becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
100
An addition to a formal document such as the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
100
Consisting of two houses, or chambers, especially in a legislature.
What is bicameral?
100
An agreement between multiple people in which each side gives up something it wants.
What is a compromise?
200
The movement during the 1700s that spread the ideas that knowledge, reason, and science improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
A part of a document, such as the Constitution, that deals with a single subject.
What is an article?
200
A law or regulation can also be known as this.
What is an ordinance?
200
A special group of votes selected by their state's votes to vote for the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
200
A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives.
What is a republic?
300
This law helped stop the spread of slavery in the west.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
This person suggested the Great Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
300
A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives is called this.
What is a republic?
300
The Articles of Confederation have to be approved by _____ states.
What is 13 states?
300
The Congress needed this many states approval to pass a law under the Constitutional government.
What is 9 states?
400
This person was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
400
This has the final authority on all laws under the federal system.
What is the Constitution?
400
The division of powers between the national and state government is known as _______________.
What is a federal system?
400
This keeps any one branch of government from gaining too much power.
What is Checks and Balances?
400
The supporters of the Constitution were called _________.
What are Federalists?
500
This is the place were all conflicts between state and federal laws are settled.
What is the Supreme Court?
500
This is the type of legislature that most states established under the Articles of Confederation.
What is bicameral?
500
This is what America's first constitution was called.
What is The Articles of Confederation?
500
This is how long a president can order troops to spend in a particular place without the consent of Congress.
What is 60 days?
500
These are the requirements to be the President of the United States.
What is be 35 years old, a natural born citizen, and live in the United States for 14 years?
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