AOC/Constitutional Convention
The Three Branches of Government
Bill of Rights
Miscellaneous I
Miscellaneous II
100
The Articles of Confederation provided for stronger ________ than__________government.
What is state? What is federal (or national)?
100

Our Executive Branch of Government is headed by____________.

What is the presidency? (Or who is the president?)

100
A total of ______amendments comprise the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
100
The power to reject a Bill that only the President holds.
What is a veto?
100

Asking a higher court to reconsider a case.

What is an appeal?

200

The Constitutional Convention was held in this city in this year.

What is Philadelphia? What is 1787?

200

Our Legislative Branch has two "houses" which are called ______________ and the____________.

What is the Senate and House of Representatives?

200

For an amendment to officially become a part of the Constitution it must be ___________ 

What is ratified?

200
The main role of this branch of government is to determine whether laws adhere to the Constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch and/or U.S. Supreme Court?
200

This gives the U.S. Constitution more authority than state constitutions.

What is The Supremacy Clause?

300
Under the Articles, the federal government was almost always broke because it lacked the power to ______.
What is tax (or the "power of the purse")?
300

Our Judicial Branch has ______ members whose term in office is________.

What is 9? What is life-time tenure?

300
Freedom of speech is one of the many rights of expression that this amendment protects.
What is The First Amendment?
300
The term in office for a U.S. Senator.
What is 6 years?
300

A system of shared powers between the national and state governments.

What is Federalism?

400

This "compromise" counted "enslaved persons" as only "partial people" when it came to calculating state populations for the purpose of determining how many representatives each state could send to the U.S. House of Representatives.

What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

400
Our three branches of government are designed to be equal because they can ________ and __________ each other.
What are check and balance?
400

This is also known as the "States' Rights" amendment.

What is the Tenth Amendment?

400

Massachusetts' current governor.

Who is Maura Healey?

400

The current Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Who is Mike Johnson?

500

This plan called for a one-house legislature with equal representation for all states.

What is The New Jersey Plan?

500

Our House of Representatives has a total of______ members and the number of representatives each state can send is based on _____________.

What is 435? What is population (or proportional representation?)

500

This clause prevents the government from declaring an official state religion.

What is the Establishment Clause?

500
Another name for the Thirteenth, Fourteenth & Fifteenth Amendments.

What are The Reconstruction Amendments?

500

When members of opposing parties work together.

What is bipartisan?