Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Chapter 10/Amendments
100
The first written plan of government for the United States.
What is Articles of Confederation?
100
A country governed by elected representatives.
What is a Republic?
100
Having two lawmaking parts. In Latin meaning 'two rooms.'
What is Bicameral?
100
A statement in the Constitution that lets Congress to pass all laws necessary.
What is Elastic Clause?
100
The right to worship freely. The right to assemble and petition. Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the Press.
What is the first amendment?
200
A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government.
What is the Constitution?
200
Had a strong national government consisting of three branches. The Executive Branch, Legestlative Branch, and the Judicial Branch. The Legestlative Branch consisted of two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
The system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches.
What is Checks and Balances?
200
To reject a proposed law or bill. Only the president can veto bills.
What is Veto?
200
Legal Rights. Protects people from going to court twice for the same crime (no double jeopordy).
What is the fifth amendment?
300
Shays Rebellion shoked Congress into calling for a Constitutional Convention. Delegates from all the colonies were making compromises to all the problems that they faced.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
300
This plan is like the Virginia plan but instead of having two houses in congress there is only one house.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
A system in which power is shared between national and state governments.
What is the Federal System?
300
The idea that the authority of government comes from the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
300
Bail and Punishment.
What is eighth amendment?
400
The House of Representatives and the Senate. Each State had two senators which were elected by the state legistlatures. The number of representatives from each state is based on the states population.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
James Madison created the costitution.
Who created the Constitution?
400
To formally accuse an official of a crime related to official duties.
What is Impeach?
400
The branch of government consisting of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts that interprets the law and protects the constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch?
400
Rights retained by the people.
What is the nineth amendment?
500
James Madison created the constitution and he proposed a compromise by counting each slave as 3/5 of a person in determining a states population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
500
The group established by the constitution to elect the president and the vice president. Voters in each state choose thier electors.
What is the Electoral College?
500
Organizations that actively promote the views of some part of the public on specific issues.
What are Interest Groups?
500
The branch of government that executes or carries out the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
500
Powers reserved to the states.
What is the tenth amendment?
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