The Articles of Confederation
What the Articles' weak government was meant to avoid creating.
What is a king?
The branch of government the Great Compromise created.
What is the legislative branch?
What the legislative branch does.
What is making laws?
What the executive branch does.
What is enforcing the laws?
Another name for the central government.
What is the federal government?
One of the modern branches of government that the Articles did not have.
EITHER:
"What is the executive branch?"
OR:
"What is the judicial branch?"
The "one state, one vote" proposal.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The amount of representatives who need to agree to overrule the President's veto.
What is two-thirds?
The number of years a President's term lasts for.
What is eight?
A government made up of many small sovereign states that join together for specific goals.
What is a confederation?
The number of people in Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
What is 13?
A state whose plan would have assigned more representatives to states with larger populations.
What is Virginia?
A clause which allows Congress to make laws that will support the common good.
What is the "necessary and proper" clause?
When Congress puts the President on trial for alleged crimes committed in office.
What is impeachment?
What is Swizerland?
A power Congress did not have under the Articles.
What is the power to levy taxes?
These states would have benefitted from equal representation.
What are small states?
The powers of Congress which are specifically mentioned in the text.
What are the enumerated powers?
Something the President can do to people convicted of crimes against the Unites States.
What is a pardon?
This is where any powers not given to the federal, state, or local government are given.
Who are the people?
The state in which Shays' Rebellion took place.
What is Massachusetts?
The total number of Senators.
What is 100?
The house of Congress elected through proportional representation.
What is the House of Representatives?
The President's role in the military.
What is the commander-in-chief?
The clause which makes the Constitution the supreme law of the land.
What is the supremacy clause?