Compromises
3 Branches of Government
The Bill of Rights
Checks and Balances
Pre-Constitution
100
Created a bicameral legislature and resolved the issue of state representation in the federal government.
What is the Great Compromise.
100
The leader of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
100
This says that people have a right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
100
This keeps a section of government from growing too powerful.
What is the system of checks and balances
100
This document established the first national government of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
The Three-Fifths Compromise dealt with these issues.
What are state representation and slavery?
200
This branch of government is the one that makes the laws for the nation.
What is the Legislative Branch?
200
This was added to the Constitution in order to protect individual citizens rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
Another name for when the President rejects a bill set forth by Congress.
What is a veto?
200
Under the Articles of Confederation each state had this in Congress.
What is an equal vote?
300
Was included into the Constitution after it was pointed out that there was not a section in the Constitution defending individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
The two parts that make up Congress as a whole.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
300
This protects an individuals freedom of religion, assembly, speech, petition, and press.
What is the First Amendment?
300
This branch can declare that existing laws are unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
300
This country refuses to show the Magna Carta publicly during its tour on its 8th Centennial.
What is China?
400
This determined the distribution of political power in the legislative branch.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
The U.S. Supreme Court has this many judges.
What is nine?
400
serving on a jury, paying taxes, signing up for the draft, voting in elections. Citizens are required to do all of these except for:
What is voting in elections?
400
This branch gets to appoint judges to the courts.
What is The Executive Branch?
400
This document declared that kings and queens had to obey the same laws as the people and were not above them.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
This Stated: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons." -Article 1 Section 2 Paragraph 3 U.S. Constitution
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
500
The way in which citizens influence the Legislative Branch of the government.
What is voting, petitioning, protesting?
500
This states that powers not delegated to the Federal Government are left to the individual states in the union
What is the 10th Amendment?
500
The vote that is needed by Congress in order to override a presidential veto.
What is 2/3rds?
500
This was passed in 1787 under the Articles of Confederation and declared slavery to be illegal in the territories that were Northwest of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
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