Foundations
"Allows for people and businesses to make their own economic choices."
What is Free Enterprise?
Believed national government would be too strong and president would be like a king.
What are the antifederalists?
The formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people.
What is government?
Branch of government that includes Congress and the House of Representatives.
What is the Legislative Branch?
"Father" of the U.S. Constitution.
Greatest weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is weak national government?
Establishes the right against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the fourth amendment?
Type of government where a single individual or small group holds absolute authority and makes all decisions.
The method by which the U.S. President is elected.
What is the Electoral College?
Constitution plan that favored large states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Branch of government that includes the supreme court.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Counted population of states with each slave worth 3/5 of a person
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
American ideal that says people must be the ultimate source of authority.
What is Self-Government?
The motto of American colonists protesting British taxes.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
Number of amendments added to the U.S. Constitution.
What is 27?
What is the debt of American farmers?
Constitution plan that favored small states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Current system in which the U.S. operates.
What is Federal Distribution of Powers?
Branch of government that includes the President.
What is the Executive Branch?
Convinced the Antifederalists to approve the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Early attempt at colonial unity that became the basis for the United States Constitution.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Six Six Idea in which duties of governing are divided among three branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
Ideal that states all people possess a fundamental, moral worth that entitles them to fair treatment and equal opportunity under the law.
What is equality?
The published work that Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote under the pen name "Publius."
What are the Federalist Papers?
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that establishes the right to freedom of speech, assembly, the press, and religion.
What is the First Amendment?