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Vocab
100
The Articles of Confederation
What is the first government of the United States?
100
Federalists
What is a person who approved the Constitution
100
Describes the Legislative Branch and its powers
What is the first Article of the Constitution?
100
The government is limited by the people
What is limited government?
100
A written plan of government
What is a constitution?
200
The Northwest Ordinance
What is a plan for admitting new states to the Union?
200
An Antifederalist
What is a person who was against the Constitution because it didn't have a Bill of Rights?
200
Describes the Executive Branch and its powers
What is the second article of the Constitution?
200
People have the right to rule
What is popular sovereignty?
200
A system used to select the president and vice president
What is the Electoral College?
300
The Ordinance of 1785
What is a plan for surveying and dividing the land in the west?
300
George Washington
Who was the leader of the Constitutional Convention?
300
Describes the Judicial Branch and its powers.
What is the third article of the Constitution?
300
The powers of the government are seperated into 3 branches.
What is the seperation of powers?
300
a legislature with two houses
What is bicameral?
400
Shay's Rebellion
What is the result of Congress not having the power to tax?
400
A plan that said there's one house and each state gets one vote.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
Has the final intrepretation on the Constitution
What does supreme court do?
400
The power is shared between state and Federal Governments
What is Federalism?
400
a statement saying the Constitution is the "supreme law of the land"
What is the Supremacy Clause?
500
English Bill of Rights
What is the thing that Constitutions based their Bill of Rights off of?
500
Virginia Plan
What is a plan that says there are two houses with the amount of representatives based off of population?
500
To pass an amendment you need... 2/3 vote from congress 3/4 states to ratify it
What is a formal amendment?
500
Each branch has a power to check/limit the other branches
What are the Checks and Balances?
500
states the purposes of the Constitution
What is the preamble?