Constitutional Convention
This compromise created a bicameral Congress with the House based on population and the Senate with equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
This major weakness of the Articles meant Congress could not require states to pay taxes.
What is lack of taxing power?
This group supported ratifying the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
The idea that government gets its authority from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
This power allows the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
This compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Under the Constitution, this level of government gained stronger authority compared to the Articles.
What is the national (federal) government?
This group opposed the Constitution mainly because it lacked this protection.
What is a Bill of Rights?
The division of government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is the separation of powers?
This branch of government has the power of judicial review.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Delegates at the Constitutional Convention tried to balance the interests of these two types of states regarding representation.
What are large and small states?
The Articles lacked this branch of government responsible for enforcing laws.
What is the executive branch?
Federalists argued a Bill of Rights was unnecessary because the Constitution already did this.
What is limited government?
This principle means the national government shares power with the states.
What is Federalism?
Judicial activism refers to interpreting the Constitution in this type of way to address modern issues.
What is flexible interpretation?
The Constitutional Convention replaced this earlier plan of government that had a very weak national government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The Constitution improved on the Articles by creating this system that prevents one branch from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
Anti-Federalists feared the President could become too similar to this type of ruler.
What is a monarch?
This constitutional principle allows each branch to limit the power of the others.
What are checks and balances?
This famous case established judicial review in the United States.
What is Marbury vs Madison?
The system created to choose the President as a compromise between Congress choosing the president and a direct popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?
The shift from the Articles to the Constitution moved the country from weak central authority to this.
This series of essays defended the Constitution and supported ratification, written by people like Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The idea from the Declaration of Independence reflected in the Constitution that government must have approval from the people.
What is consent of the governed?
If the Supreme Court rules a law unconstitutional, it is exercising this constitutional principle.
What is separation of powers?