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Fundamental Political Principles
Constitutional Convention and Ratification
The Supreme Law of the Land
Virginia's Beginning and Virginia's Constitutions
Hodgepodge
100
People rule
What is democracy?
100
The failure of the Articles of the Constitution led to this in Philadelphia, PA
What is Constitutional Convention
100
Where the list of goals for our government is found
What is Preamble to the Constitution
100
The writer of the Virginia Declaration of Rights
Who is George Mason
100
The three branches of government
What is legislative, executive, and judicial
200
Government is not all powerful and may do only those things the people have given it the power to do
What is limited government?
200
Failure to enforce laws and give out taxes
What is failure of the Articles of Confederation
200
Establishes the three branches of our national government
What is the First three articles of the Constitution
200
Virginia's legislature
What is General Assembly
200
Separation of powers between state and federal governments
What is federalism
300
The government and those who govern are bound by the law, as are the those who are governed
What is rule of law?
300
The two major disagreements in the Constitutional Convention
What is number of representatives and power of national government?
300
Powers shared by both the federal and state governments
What is concurrent powers
300
Another word for law
What is statute
300
This sets the plan for our government in the Constitution
What are the Articles
400
People elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on the people's behalf
What is representative government?
400
This is how the President is elected
What is Electoral College
400
Powers given to the national government in the Constitution
What is Enumerated (delegated) powers
400
Who wrote the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
What is Thomas Jefferson
400
(Daily Double) Signs the bill into law at the state level
What is governor
500
The people are the source of any and all governmental power
What is consent of the governed
500
This is how many electors are in each state
What is number of representatives in House of Representatives and Senate of state
500
(Daily Double) The documents that influenced the Constitution of the United States (5)
What are the Charters of the Virgina Company of London, Virginia Declaration of Rights, The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
500
The number of changes made to Virginia's Constitution
What is 6
500
The number of representatives in the House of Representatives
What is 435