Principles of the Constitution
The beginning of the Constitution where the ideals of our government are stated
What is the Preamble?
Advisers to the president
What is the Cabinet?
Father of the Constitution
Who was James Madison?
The Judicial Branch decides if laws are this.
What is Constitutional or Unconstitutional?
Has a King or Queen and the power is passed down through a family
What is a monarchy?
Each branch of government has a control to limit the powers of the other branches.
What is Checks and Balances?
Future Generations
What is posterity?
How they dealt with counting slaves in the population
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
The two entities that make up Congress
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
One person has absolute power and often uses the military to enforce their will
What is a Dictatorship?
The division of power between the National Government and the States.
What is federalism?
A person who owes loyalty to a nation and is given all the rights and protection of that country.
What is a citizen?
The reason they went to the Philadelphia Convention
What is to revise the Articles of Confederation?
This person appoints Federal Judges, Ambassadors and other Cabinet Positions
Who is the President?
There is no private property and the government plans and controls laws and the economy.
What is Communism?
The power of the government is divided among the branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
A group of electors from each state who are chosen by voters every four years to elect the president and vice president
What is the Electoral College?
This was the agreement settled on after both the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan were rejected.
What is the Great Compromise?
How Congress can pass a bill over a presidential veto
What is 2/3 majority vote?
People choose representatives to govern them
What is a Republic?
The power of government belongs to the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The willingness to work for the good of the nation.
What is Civic Virtue?
Patrick Henry, Edmund Randolf and George Mason refused to sign the Constitution unless they added this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Maximum number of years a president can serve
What is 10 years?
The type of government in the United States today
What is a Democratic-Republic?