Basics
This is a written plan for government.
What is a Constitution?
This signified that the king was under the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
These powers are specifically granted in the constitution.
What are expressed powers?
This was an agreement regarding how to count slaves in the populations of states.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This term refers to things from long ago.
This term refers to a group of people living in a territory with recognized borders.
What is a state?
This is a written agreement.
What is a charter?
These powers are shared by state and national governments.
What are concurrent powers?
This was the compromise that set the final structure of the legislative branch.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
This term refers to the people who helped write the Constitution.
Who are Framers?
This refers to anything a government decides to do.
What is public policy?
This means a government is regulated and has established rules.
What is an ordered government?
These are the powers that states retain.
What are reserved powers?
This plan called for two houses of Congress--both based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
These powers are reasonably suggested by a power specifically granted in the Constitution.
What are implied powers?
This is the power to interpret laws.
What is judicial power?
This gave Parliament the ability to approve or disapprove of certain actions of the king.
These powers belong to every government just because they are a government.
What are inherent powers?
This prevented Congressional action on the slave trade for twenty years after the adoption of the Constitution.
What is the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
This is the power to enforce (or police) laws.
What is executive power?
This is the power to create laws.
What is legislative power?
This guarantees that basic liberties are preserved.
What is a limited government?
This term refers to all of the expressed, implied, and inherent powers of the U.S. government.
What are delegated powers?
This plan called for one house in Congress which gave every state the same representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This article and section is the location of the specifically stated powers of the President.
What is article II, section 2?