Colonial Government
This document declares people have the right to alter or abolish a government if that government violates their natural rights
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This document establishes the national government's structure and protecting fundamental rights.
What is the Constitution?
This branches leader main responsibility is to enforce the law
What is the Executive Branch/President?
An example of this system is the power of the President to veto a bill passed by Congress
What is checks and balance?
This president is Ms. Rios's archnemesis
Who is President Thomas Jefferson?
Voters electing officials who represents them in government and make governmental decision
What is a Representative Democracy?
Delegates from the smaller states strongly supported this idea at the Constitutional Convention of 1787
What is establishing a strong national government?
This branch has the power granted by the Constitution to declare war
What is the Legislative Branch/Congress?
This power is granted to the President to reject a bill passed by Congress
What is a Veto?
The youngest person to become President of the United States of America?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This government gave too much power to the states and not the national government
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The Constitution declared a census of this will determine the number of members each state will have in the House of Representatives
What is population?
The division of the federal government into the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches
What is Separation of Powers/the Three Braches?
This is the division of power between the national and state governments
What is federalism?
This president was elected four-time and was the reason the 22nd Amendment (limits the number of times a person can be elected to the office of President of the United States to twice) was created
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Only a small portion of the U.S. population received these rights at first, but access to these rights has gradually increased over centuries.
What is unalienable rights/natural rights?
Stated in the Constitution that to become a member of this you must be over 25 years old
What is the House of Representative?
This branches main function in the federal government is to interrupt the Constitution
What is the Judicial Branch/Supreme Court?
The power of the courts to declare a law or government action unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
This formers president's wife ran for President of the United States twice and lost.
Who is President Bill Clinton?
The opening words of the Preamble, "We the People," establish this core principle of the U.S. government, meaning that the government's power comes from the consent of the governed
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Of these choices, one is NOT described directly in the original Constitution:
1) Vice President
2) House of Representatives
3) Other Federal Courts
4) Cabinets
What is the President's Cabinet/ 4)
This is an example of power shared by the federal and state governments
(1) Declaring war on a foreign nation.
(2) Regulating interstate commerce.
(3) Ratifying an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
(4) Cooperating to build a national highway system and collect taxes to fund it.
What is cooperating to build a national highway system and collect taxes to fund it./ 4)
This gives Congress the power to pass laws on topics not explicitly listed in the Constitution, often referred to as the Elastic Clause.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
Who is the president this song lyric is describing
🎵Now, I'm the model of a modern major general, The venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all lining up, to put me up on a pedestal
Who is President George Washington?