Making Plans
What event led to the decision to create a new plan for governance?
Shay's Rebellion.
The Constitutional Convention took place in which US City?
What is Philadelphia?
When governments powers are written, limited and restricted by law.
What is Limited Government?
Usually, the ________ College vote reflects the will of the general voting public, but not always.
What is the Electoral College?
In a U.S. presidential election, voters do not _______ vote for their chosen candidate.
What is directly?
What is the name of the document that outlined our original plan for government following the revolution?
This document/plan was thrown out early in the process when the delegates decided they needed to start from the beginning.
What are the people?
The men who wrote the Constitution are also called this.
What are Framers, or Founding Fathers?
True or False: A candidate can win the popular vote but not the election.
What is true? (They must earn 270 electoral votes to win the election).
How many states had to agree to amending the Articles of Confederation?
What is all 13 states?
The largest state, with the greatest number of people, more territory and the largest claims to additional territory.
What is Virginia?
Gives each of the three branches of government some degree of oversight and control over the actions of the others
What is Checks and Balances?
A fancy term for a bill that approves spending at the government level.
What is an appropriations bill?
Under the ______ Amendment, each state still gets a number of electors equal to the number of members in the House of Representatives for that state plus its two U.S. senators.
What is the 12th?
Fill in the blank: The Articles of Confederation did NOT have the power to raise ________.
What is taxes?
This group was particularly concerned with equal representation.
What are small states? (Also acceptable: New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut for population, and New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware for size)
System of government in which power is divided between the national government and the state governments.
What is Federalism?
There are 27 changes to the constitution. They are called _______.
What are amendments?
How many Electoral Votes does a candidate need to win the presidential election?
What is 270?
True or False: When the national government needed money, the Confederation Congress had to ask the states to contribute funds, but any state could refuse to contribute.
What is true?
You are a state that supports the abolition of slavery, but believe it will die out in a few years on its own accord as the number of slave owners have been growing smaller in recent years.
What is Massachusetts?
A way of dividing power among three branches of government in which members of Congress, the president, and the federal courts are selected by and responsible to different constituencies. This means that no one part of government has too much power, and no one group gets to pick everyone who does have power.
What is Separation of Powers?
The official way to confirm something, usually by vote.
What is ratification?
In all but two states whichever candidate gets the most votes, even if it’s not a majority, gets all of that state’s electoral votes. What is one of those two states?
What is Maine or Nebraska?