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100
Believed in separation of powers?
Who is Montesquieu?
100
A detailed written plan for government
What is the Constitution?
100
No poll tax.
What is the 24th amendment?
100
Can override a veto.
What is the U.S. Congress?
100
The committee was headed by him when they decided the government will have 2 houses
Who is Roger Sherman?
200
Became president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
A group of people named by each sate legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is Electoral College?
200
Abolishment of slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
Can appoint judges.
What is the Executive branch?
200
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
The first vice president.
Who is John Adams?
300
A system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of others.
What is checks and balances?
300
The right to vote at age 18.
What is the 26th amendment?
300
Can declare actions unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
300
This was the year the Constitution took effect?
What is 1788?
400
The first president to die in office.
Who is William Henrey Harrison?
400
Power shared by the sates and federal government.
What is concurrent powers?
400
Due process,double jeopardy, self-incrimination
What is the 5th amendment?
400
Can impeach/reject appointment of judges.
What is the U.S. Congress?
400
This part of the Constitution contains the 3 branches of government and what they do.
What is the articles?
500
Became president after William Harrison died.
Who is John Tyler?
500
A clause stating that the Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government are "the supreme Law of the land."
What is supremacy clause?
500
Lawsuits against a state.
What is the 11th amendment?
500
This type of government can coin money.
What is the National Government?
500
1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory and a plan for admitting new states to the Union.
What is Northwest Territory?