Democracy Details
Can't We All Just Get Along?
The Three Branches
Founding Fathers
Is That Your Final Answer?
200
This is a government in which political power is exercised directly by all of the citizens.
What is a direct democracy?
200
A formal agreement between two sovereign Nation-States.
What is a treaty?
200
The president's rejection of an act of Congress is given this name.
What is a veto.
200
Those who supported ratification of the Constitution and policies that would establish a strong national government.
Who were the Federalists?
200
The first ten amendments to the Constitution which guarantee extensive individual liberties to Americans
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
In this form of government, the people elect individuals to make decisions and govern on their behalf.
What is a representative democracy?
400
This term is used to describe a blending of two or more viewpoints.
What is a compromise?
400
The power of U.S. courts to decide whether government acts are constitutional is known by this term.
What is judicial review?
400
American author, inventor, and newspaper editor who served as ambassador to France during the American Revolution
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
400
The U.S. Constitution has been amended this many times.
What is 27?
600
This term is used to describe a government that exists as an alliance of independent states.
What is a confederation?
600
A pact that a President makes with the head of a foreign state is given this name.
What is an executive agreement?
600
The President's advisory board is known by this term.
What is the Cabinet?
600
Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution, fearing the threat of an abusive national government.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
600
This amendment extended the right to vote to women.
What is the 19th Amendment?
800
This term is used to describe a government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister and his/her cabinet, who are drawn from the legislative branch.
What is a parliamentary government?
800
This was the first constitution of the United States of America.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
800
This informal custom regarding the Presidency was eventually added to the Constitution through formal amendment.
What is the two-term limit for Presidents?
800
This creator of the Virginia Plan is sometimes known as the "Father of the Constitution".
Who was James Madison?
800
One of the two institutions that are able to formally propose an amendment to the Constitution.
What is the U.S. Congress or national conventions?
1000
A government of shared powers, in which the executive and legislative branches have separate powers and operate independently from each other, is known by this name.
What is a presidential government?
1000
Presidents often use executive agreements in negotiations with foreign heads of state to avoid the requirement that all treaties be ratified by this organization.
What is the U.S. Senate?
1000
This term is given to the custom that the Senate will approve only a presidential appointee acceptable to the senators of the President's party from the appointee's home state.
What is senatorial courtesy?
1000
This primary author of the Declaration of Independence went on to serve as the third president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
1000
This method of amending the Constitution has been the most commonly used throughout American history.
What is proposal by Congress followed by ratification by state legislatures?