Articles of Confederation
Each state had this many votes under the Articles
What is one vote each?
These type of States favored equal power among all States (one vote each)
What are smaller states?
The first three words of the Constitution
What is "We the people"?
The governments job is to protect these
What are the peoples rights?
These rights are protected in the first amendment
What is the right to free speech, religion, press, and assembly?
Amendment
What is an article added to the US Constitution?
The founding fathers were very scared of creating this
What is a strong government or a king?
These type of States favored proportional power based on population size
What are larger states?
The people we elect are supposed to do this for us
What is run the government?
These are the three branches of America's government
What are Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
(bonus for naming what each branch is)
The rights you get when you have been arrested
What is due process? (legal rights to fair trial, legal help, and knowing rights)
Congress
What is a group of lawmakers?
The reason the government had no money under the Articles
What is the inability to collect taxes?
The reason Shay led a rebellion against the government
What is the government did not pay the debt they owed people?
The goal of this was to make sure no one person or group could do anything they want
Laws need to voted on by _________ and then be approved by __________
What is congress and the president?
The reason you can't be put in jail for life when caught stealing from Walmart
What is protection from cruel or unusual punishment?
Federalism
What is a system where power is shared between the States and Federal government?
These held more power than the federal government under the Articles
What are the States?
This was the way enslaved people were counted as part of a states population
What is the 3/5th compromise? (for every 5 enslaved people, 3 of them counted towards the population)
The government gets all of its power from this
What is the power that people allow it to have?
Our system splits the power between these two forms of government
What is state and federal/national?
The 9th and 10th amendments are meant to do this
What are reserved powers? (Give power to the people and states)
Republic form of Government
What is a type of government where people vote for representatives who run the government?
This caused paper money to become almost worthless
What is the overproduction of money? (printing too much)
To compromise, the founders agreed to split this branch into two parts
What is the legislative branch? (or congress)
Each branch of government can do this any other branch
What is checks and balances?
This is the duty of the Supreme Court
What is interpret laws and the constitution?
This happens if a State law contradicts the Constitution
What is the constitution always wins?
Popular Sovereignty
What is a system where each person has authority over themselves and use popularity to choose leadership?