This problem in the US was highlighted by the events of Shay's Rebellion
What is the weakness of the national government?
100
This branch is responsible for enforcing the laws and has the power to veto bills.
What is the executive branch?
100
This is the meaning of the word "ratify".
What is to approve?
100
This is the meaning of the word "suffrage".
What is the right to vote?
100
"We the People" are the first words of this document.
What is the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States?
200
These two groups had to share the power to govern under the federal system.
What is the national and the state governments?
200
This branch has the power to approve the appointments of Supreme Court justices and makes all national laws.
What is the legislative branch?
200
This is the amendment that protects the right to free speech.
What is the first amendment.
200
This is the meaning of the word "union".
What is an alliance that words to reach common goals?
200
This is the difference between Federalism and Anti-Federalism.
What is Federalists wanted a strong national government and Anti-Federalists were fearful of a strong national government?
300
This is the question that the delegates at the Constitutional Convention tried to resolve.
What is how should representation in Congress be divided among the states?
300
This branch decides whether laws follow the Constitution.
What is the judicial branch?
300
This is what "reserved powers" are.
What is the power that belongs to the states or to the people?
300
This is why checks and balances are important.
What is they keep any one branch from becoming too powerful?
300
This is what it means to act with civic virtue.
What is to act with qualities that add to a healthy democracy?
400
This is the role that Gouveneur Morris had at the Constitutional Convention
What is he wrote the Preamble to the Constitution?
400
This is why the writers of the Constitution added checks and balances to the federal government.
What is to prevent any one branch from controlling the government?
400
This is why many delegates insisted on adding ten amendments to the Constitution soon after it was ratified.
What is to protect the basic rights of the people.
400
This is what it means that the United States of America is a republic?
What is that the United States has a form of government in which the people elect representatives to govern the country?
400
This is the agreement that the delegates at the Constitutional Convention finally reach under the Great Compromise.
What is Congress would have two houses, with one having equal representation from each state and the other having representation based on each state's population?
500
This was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
What is to fix the Articles of Confederation?
500
This branch has the power to impeach the President.
What is the legislative branch?
500
These rights are guaranteed to citizens under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?
What is freedom of religion, speech, press, and the right to assemble?
500
How do checks and balances help each branch of the federal government make more thoughtful decisions?
What is because its powers can be checked by the other branches?
500
This is the difference between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan.
What is the Virginia Plan was congressional representation based on state population and the New Jersey Plan was congressional representation equally divided among the states?