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100
What is the first Constitution for the United States?
The Articles of Confederation
100
Who wrote some of the first dictionaries?
Noah Webster
100
What is the plan for a bicameral Congress based on population?
Virginia or large state plan
100
Which branch is created in Article I?
Legislative
100
What is the lower house?
The House of Representatives
200
Who had the power to tax under the Articles of Confederation?
The individual states
200
Who is the English philosopher who believed that people are motivated by greed and fear?
Thomas Hobbes
200
What is the plan for a unicameral Congress in which each state has equal representation?
New Jersey or small state plan
200
Which branch is created in Article II?
Executive
200
What is the upper house?
The Senate
300
Who had the power of declaring war?
The federal government.
300
Who wrote the Second Treatise of Government?
John Locke
300
What is the plan that created the current Congress?
Great Compromise
300
Which branch is created in Article III?
Judicial
300
What declares that the Constitution is the "supreme law of the land"?
Supremacy clause
400
How many states had to agree to make a change to the Articles of Confederation?
13
400
Who wrote the Spirit of Laws?
Montesquieu
400
How were slaves counted?
3/5ths of a person
400
What is the preamble?
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
400
What is the minimum number of Congress required to conduct business?
quorum
500
What is the only success of the Articles of Confederation?
The Northwest Ordinance
500
Who is the "Father of the Constitution"?
James Madison
500
How long before the slave trade would be halted?
20 years
500
Where is the elastic clause?
Article I section 8 clause 18
500
What is the practice of drawing the boundary lines of Congressional voting districts to give a particular political party an advantage when electing representatives?
Gerrymander