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What is the powers belonging to state governments?
What is the reserved powers
100
What is the introduction to the Constitution called?
What is The Preamble
100
Why did Gouverneur Morris begin the Preamble of the Constitution with the phrase "We the People?"
What is to emphasize the unity of people from every state
100
Congress has primary responsibility for...
What is Both A and B (making the nation's laws, and setting prison sentences)
100
What happens directly after a bill is introduced in the House and the Senate?
What is it is referred to committee
200
What branch of government includes the president and vice president?
What is the executive branch
200
This term means the process by which a person of foreign birth can become a United States citizen
What is naturalization
200
The Constitution includes...
What is seven major principles
200
The executive branch of the U.S. Government has primary responsibility for...
What is carrying out laws that Congress passes
200
How might a bill NOT become a law?
What is all the above (Committees may take no action on it, the president may veto it, and the House and Senate may fail to make a compromise.)
300
What system of government states that NO people or groups are above the law?
What is limited government
300
What act of 1789 was an added district courts to the federal court system?
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789
300
The Constitution specifically addresses...
What is the power to coin money
300
Who can declare war?
What is the Congress
300
How do the House and Senate come to a compromise on different versions of a bill?
What is by referring it to a joint conference committee
400
What term means "authority of the people?"
What is popular sovereignty
400
What is it called when the powers belong to the federal government?
What is enumerated powers
400
Congress has used the "commerce clause" to..
What is expand its powers into transportation, media, and energy sources
400
The idea that the government must follow certain procedures established by law is known as?
What is the Due process
400
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500
What term means the right to be treated the same under the law?
What is equal protection
500
What is one duty of an American?
What is pay taxes
500
In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court...
What is defined its right to check the power of the legislative branch
500
What is one duty of American citizens?
What is to vote
500
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