Lesson 1
Consisting of a legislative branch to make laws, a governor to carry out the laws, a court system with judges.
What is State Constitutions?
Another name for a delegate.
What is a Framer?
The law-making branch of the government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The idea that power lies with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Powers granted directly to the national government by the Constitution; another name for expressed powers.
What are Enumerated Powers?
An addition to the Constitution that made Anti-Federalists change their minds.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The meeting of state delegates in 1787 that led to the adoption of a new Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The branch of government that carries out laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The principle that a ruler or a government is not all-powerful; a government that can do only what the people allow it to do.
What is Limited Government?
Powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states.
What are Reserved Powers?
The first constitution of the United States of America.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Representation based off of population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The branch of government that interprets laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern.
What is the Rule of Law?
The opening section of the Constitution.
What is The Preamble?
A plan for admitting new states to the Union in 1787 for the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
An agreement providing a dual-system of Congressional representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
The Article that explains the Legislative Branch and its powers.
What is Article I?
The split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is Separation of Power?
One of several main parts of the Constitution.
What are Articles?
An uprising of farmers in Massachusetts because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
A group of people, named by each State Legislator, to select the President and Vice-President.
What is the Electoral College?
The Article that explains the Executive Branch, explains its powers, and also lists the powers of the President.
What is Article II?
A system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of the others.
What are Checks and Balances?
Any change in the Constitution.
What are Amendments?