Category 1
Three parts of the Constitution
What are the Preamble, Articles, and Amendments?
Type of document the Declaration of Independence is.
What is a purpose document?
The rejection of a bill.
What is a veto?
Type of document the Constitution is.
What is an organizational document?
The number of core purposes written in the Constitution
What is 6?
The most important part of the Constitution is the first _______ words.
What are 52?
The Declaration of Independence establishes the ________
of the U.S.
What are the core principles?
A change in the constitution
What is an amendment?
The Constitution acts on the _______ and ________ written in the Declaration of Independence.
What are Principles and Beliefs?
The Declaration of Independence is a __________ document.
What is purpose?
Another word for Preamble
What is Introduction?
One of the six purposes of the constitution
The answer may vary.
The Constitution establishes how the U.S. will ______ _______
One of the key concepts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is that they _______ _______.
What is work together?
One of the fundamental principles of the government.
What is (any correct answer)?
The concept that expresses people are the source of government power.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
In this governmental system, power is divided by national and state governments.
What is Federalism
The concept that expresses each of the three branches of government has its own responsibilities.
What is Separation of Powers?
Each branch of government holds some control over the other two branches.
What is the system of checks and balances?
Courts have the power to declare laws and actions of congress and the president unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
The Constitution limits the powers of government by making explicit grants of authority.
What is limited government?
The power that is directly stated in the constitution.
What is expressed power?
The branch that can not create any laws.
What is the executive branch?
True or False: Each government branch places limits on the other's power to prevent the concentration of power in one branch.
What is true?