These two characteristics encapsulate what a state really is.
What is Population and Sovereignty?
100
Parliament imposed a series of taxes on the colonies
beginning in 1764 in order to ________________.
What is to help pay Britain’s debts resulting from the French
and Indian War?
100
What is one way an amendment to the
Constitution can be ratified? (Hint: Fraction)
What are three-fourths of state
legislatures?
100
Formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people.
What is Government?
100
The idea that people should have a say in their own government.
What is Representative Government?
200
This theory holds that the first governments formed as a
result of people agreeing among themselves to submit to
the authority of a state.
What is Social Contract Theory?
200
This economically based concept was noted as one of the weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
What is the Congress' lack of power to tax?
200
The 1803 landmark Supreme
Court case Marbury v. Madison established the principle of _________.
What is Judicial Review?
200
Government that divides power over people and territory between a national government and smaller, regional levels of government.
What is the Federal System?
200
The belief that government should be subject to strict limits on the lawful use of power.
What is Limited Government?
300
The supreme power of a state to act within its territory and
have absolute authority over its internal and external affairs
is called?
What is Sovereignty?
300
The Framers took the idea of separation of powers from
which philosopher?
What is Montesquieu?
300
What is the name of the group of executive department heads who advise the president?
What is the Cabinet?
300
A system that is distinguished by having a president that is elected by the people for a limited time.
What is the Presidential System?
300
The final principle in the U.S. Constitution's blueprint under which the powers of government are distributed between the national government and state government.
What is Federalism?
400
This term is another name for the term general welfare.
What is Public Good?
400
Why did large states favor the Virginia Plan?
What is the concept that representation in the
legislature would be based on population?
400
The duties of governing are divided among three branches
under the principle of _________.
What are the Separation of Powers?
400
A system where the executive and legislative branches are combined, and are overseen by a Prime Minister.
What is the Parliamentary System?
400
An organized group that seeks to win elections in order to influence the activities of government.
What is a Political Party?
500
This principle of American democracy is at work when
two opposing groups relax some of their demands in an
attempt to reach an agreement?
What is Compromise?
500
According to the Three-Fifths Compromise, three-fifths of a
state’s slave population would be _________.
What is counted when determining representation in Congress?
500
The purpose of the Preamble of the Constitution is to __________.
What is to state the goals for the new government?
500
A two-chamber legislature called Parliament.
What is Bicameral?
500
The body of 538 people elected from the 50 states and the District of Columbia the elects the President and Vice President of the United States.