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POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
LIMITED GOVERNMENT
SEPARATION OF POWERS
CHECKS & BALANCES
FEDERALISM
Odds and Ends
100
What is the best way for a citizen to use their pop. sovereignty?
Voting
100

This government is not all powerful and may only do that which the people give it the power to do.

What is limited government?

100
How many branches of goverment does the United States have?
What is 3 branches?
100

What is the definition of Checks and Balances?

What is checking or restraining power of the other two branches?

100
What is the definition of Federalism?
What is division of power among National and State governments
100

Name of political philosopher who designed the idea of having separate branches of power.

Who is Baron de Montesquieu?

200
the plan for government that the Pilgrims created before they started the colony of Plymouth.
What is Mayflower Compact?
200

What document was the first example of a limited government?

What is the Magna Carta?

200
What Enlightenment philosopher supported branches of government?
Who is Montesquieu?
200
What is the main power that the President has over Congress?
What is vetoing a law passed by Congress?
200
How is the United States broken down in different levels of government?
What is into Federal, State, and Local levels?
200

This clause in the Constitution defines how to resolve conflicts between federal law and state law.

What is the Supremacy Clause?

(Article 6, Clause 2)

300

All political power resides with the people.

What is Pop. Sovereignty?

300

The fear of a strong central government was reflected in America's first governing document.

What is the Articles of Confederation?

300

Here, powers are distributed nationally to Congress, the President, and Supreme Court?

What is Separation of Powers?

300

This is where, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, we see Checks and Balances about Congress.

What is the Great Compromise?

300
How do Reserved and Delegated powers differ?
What is Reserved are for the States and Delegated are for the Federal Government?
300

Madison said "...the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

What's the mechanism to do this?

What is the system of checks and balances?

400
What words in the US Constitution embody Pop. Sovereignty?
What is "We the People"?
400
What group at the Constitutional Convention would have supported the idea of Limited Government?
Who are the AntiFederalists?
400
What is the main role of the Executive Branch of Government?
What is to enforce/carry out laws?
400
What is the main check that Congress has over the President?
What is overriding a veto?
400
The Constitution gives the Federal Government what type of powers?
What is Expressed powers?
400

The Preamble

You must sing the Preamble to the Constitution. 

500
Name a type of Government that lacks Pop. Sovereignty as one of its foundations.
What is a dictatorship, monarchy, or totalitarian regime?
500

The reason for the addition of the Bill of Rights.

What is a limited Federal Government? 

What is protection of individual rights?

500
To further separate powers in the legislative branch, how is Congress structured?
What is bimcameral?
500
Why did the framers create a system of Checks and Balances?
What is to prevent a single branch of government from abusing its power like a monarchy?
500
Name two examples of Concurrent powers of the US Government and the States?
What is collecting taxes, crimes, and punishing criminals?
500

Mob Rule, Shays Rebellion, Uneducated people

What are the reasons the Founding Fathers feared democracy?