This was create to keep the U.S. Government from become too powerful.
What is the Seperation of Powers.
100
What does it mean to promote a more perfect union?
What is to make the states work together as a unified nation.
100
This plan for government wanted all representation to be based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
Article I of the Constitution lays out the framework for this.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
This is the leader of the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker of the House
200
A presidental veto is an example of this.
What are Checks and Balances?
200
This is what our men and women fought for during the Revolutionary War.
What is "to secure the blessings of liberty"?
200
The two House system that is used in the Legislative Branch of the United States can be traced back to this.
What is the Virginia Plan.
200
These are the ages that congressmen and senators must be in order to run for office.
What are 25 and 30?
200
The person who leads the Senate when the Vice President is busy.
Who is the Pro-Tempore
300
This means that the government can only have the power given to it by the U.S. Constitution.
What is limited government?
300
This means to create a unified court system to provide justice for all citizens.
What is "to establish justice"?
300
This is the amount of votes a bill needs to pass in the House of Representatives.
What is 50% plus 1.
300
These are the lengths of terms for congressmen and senators.
What are 2 and 6 years.
300
The people who representatives represent.
Who are constituents?
400
This means that people elect representatives for vote on their behalf in Congress.
What is Republicanism?
400
This is the meaning of domestic tranquility.
What is peace and order at home.
400
This plan for representation was developed during the Constitutional Convention and can be found in Article I of the Constitution.
What is Roger Sherman's "Great Compromise"?
400
This states that a representative must live in the state that they are going to represent.
What are residency requriments.
400
This is when a senator takes up time on the floor talking in order to delay the vote on a bill.
What is a filibuster?
500
This means that the people give government the authority to rule.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
These are all of the 6 preamble goals in order.
What is to promote a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty.
500
The idea that senators would get equal representation in government comes from this.
What is the New Jersey Plan.
500
This is the nick name of a series of powers that the Congress has over national money.
What is "the power of the purse".
500
When 60 members of the Senate vote to end a filibuster, it is called this.