Constitutional Principles
This principle ensures that each branch of government is divided from the other two
What are Separation of Powers?
These two First Amendment freedoms help create an informed public and hold government officials accountable.
What are Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Press?
They believed a strong central government would provide stability to the country.
Who are the Federalists?
Giving Congress the power to do this to a presidential veto was influenced by King George's refusal to approve laws.
What is override a veto?
Both the Magna Carta and this English document provided protections for individual freedoms.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The idea that elected officials must obey the law.
What is Limited Government?
Included in the BOR because British troops tried to seize colonists' weapons without legal permission during the Revolution,
What is the Second Amendment?
Written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay to explain and defend the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The Supreme Court exercises a check on the legislative branch by declaring a law to be this.
What is unconstitutional?
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress lacked the power to collect these.
What are taxes?
This principle gives each branch of government the ability to limit the power of the other two.
What are Checks and Balances?
Protects citizens from double jeopardy, self-incrimination, and guarantees due process of law.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Anti-Federalists opposed ratifying the Constitution partly because it gave state governments less power than this government.
What is the National (Federal) government?
Voting, participating in a census, and serving on a jury are all examples of these.
What are Civic Responsibilities?
A major weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that individual states could create their own version of this.
What is currency (money)?
This principle states that powers not delegated to the national government are reserved to the states and citizens. It is found in the 10th Amendment!
What is Federalism?
Guarantees the right to a trial by jury (in a criminal case.)
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This plan for the legislature called for proportional representation based on population
What is the Virginia Plan?
The arrival of Pilgrims and the founding of Pennsylvania and Maryland demonstrate this freedom developing in the colonies.
What is religious freedom?
Under the Articles of Confederation, approval from at least this number of states was required to pass new laws.
What is nine?
The principle reflected in the idea that Congress represents us, the American citizens.
Protects citizens from cruel and unusual punishment, such as long prison sentences for minor offenses.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This agreement balanced power between small and large states by creating both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
This ordinance established the formal process by which new states were admitted into the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The Articles of Confederation limited national power out of fear of this type of government.
What is a strong central government?