DoI
According to the Declaration, governments derive their "just powers" from this source.
What is the consent of the governed?
This was the term for the one-house national legislature established under the Articles.
What is Unicameral?
This compromise created the bicameral legislature with proportional representation in one house and equal in the other.
What is the Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise)?
This article of the Constitution establishes the Executive Branch.
What is Article II?
The idea that the power of the government comes from the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Name the actor that starred in all three films:
Mother
Passengers
Hunger Games
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
This key phrase in the Declaration means rights are inherent and cannot be taken away.
What are unalienable rights?
This financial power was notably lacking in the Confederation Congress, making it difficult to pay war debts.
What is the power to tax (or levy taxes)?
This plan favored by large states wanted representation based on population in both houses of the legislature.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This is the longest article of the Constitution because it creates our legislative branch. They have a lot of responsibilities.
What is Article I?
The division of government power among the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
Name the actor that starred in all three films:
Star Wars (Episodes 4-6)
American Graffiti
Indiana Jones
Who is Harrison Ford?
The Declaration asserts that if a government becomes destructive of the people's rights, the people have the right to do this.
What is to alter or abolish it?
To amend (change) the Articles, this number of states was required to approve the measure.
What is all thirteen states?
This compromise settled the issue of how to count slaves for purposes of representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This article of the Constitution determines that the US Constitution is superior to the state governments/constitutions and that the US Constitution is the "Supreme Law of the Land".
What is Article VI?
The principle that requires government officials to always follow the established law.
What is Limited Government (or Rule of Law)?
Name the actor that starred in all three films:
Walking Tall
The Rundown
Jungle Cruise
Who is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?
This influential Enlightenment philosopher's ideas on natural rights heavily inspired Thomas Jefferson.
Who is John Locke?
This 1786 uprising of Massachusetts farmers protesting debt was a major catalyst for replacing the Articles.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This compromise was crucial to getting the Constitution ratified as the anti-federalists had some very serious worries about tyranny.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Prior to the Constitution, amending the Articles of Confederation was nearly impossible. That issue was resolved for our new government in this article of the Constitution.
What is Article V?
This principle allows each branch of the federal government to monitor and constrain the actions of the other two branches.
What are Checks and Balances?
Name the actor that starred in all three films:
Easy A
Zombieland
La La Land
Who is Emma Stone?
The three specific unalienable rights listed in the Preamble of the Declaration.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Under the Articles, the national government had no power to regulate this vital economic activity between the states.
What is interstate commerce?
This compromise dealt with how the president is chosen. We still use it today. You get to vote for them, but you're really selecting representatives who will vote for the president.
What is the Electoral College?
This article establishes the Judicial branch of our government.
What is Article III?
The concept that power is divided between the federal (national) government and the state governments.
What is Federalism?
Name the actor that starred in all three films:
Ford v. Ferrari
Batman Begins
Reign of Fire
Who is Christian Bale?