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7th Grade
100
A detailed, written plan for government.
What is a constitution?
100
A meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
100
The opening section of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
100
A ruler or a government is not all-powerful; a government that can do only what the people allow it to do.
What is the principal of limited government?
100
Toto
Who is Jake Rosenberg?
200
To vote approval of.
What is ratification?
200
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is an electoral college?
200
The last part of the Constitution.
What are the 27 amendments?
200
The law applies to everyone, even those who govern.
What is the rule of law?
200
My bat mitzvah on November 23, 2014
Who is Emma Grungold?
300
A law, usually of a city or county.
What is an ordinance?
300
An agreement providing that enslaved persons as white men for representation in Congress.
What is the three-fifths compromise?
300
The branch of government that carries out laws.
What is the executive branch?
300
The split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is the separation of powers?
300
The person with the coolest last name.
Who is Morgan Isbitts?
400
A group of individuals or state governments.
What is a confederation?
400
A form of government in which power is divided between the national government and the states.
What is federalism?
400
The branch of government that interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
400
The idea that power lies with the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
The head and main singer of the Great Decades Bash.
Who is Mr. Reiner?
500
New Hampshire.
What is the state that set up the first state constitution?
500
A series of essays written to defend the Constitution.
What are the federalist papers?
500
One of several main parts of the Constitution.
What are the articles?
500
A system in which each branch of government is able to restrain, the power of the others.
What is the plan of checks and balances?
500
7th grade's favorite teacher.
Who is Mrs. Turner?