A form of Government in which powers are divided between Federal and State governments
What is the Federal Government?
100
The Presidential Advisory Body
What is the Cabinet?
100
"We the People..."; the beginning of a constitution
What is the preamble?
100
The great charter forced upon King John of England in 1215
What is the Magna Carta?
100
A form of government in which a constitution divides power between the central and state governments
What is Federalism?
200
A body of government with 2 houses
What is Bicameral?
200
The three branches of government
What are the Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches?
200
The first ten Amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
Denied Congress the power to tax the export of goods from any state, and for 20 years, the power to act on the slave trade, protected the slave holders
What is the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
200
A centralized government
What is Unitary government?
300
The group that conducts the national election to determine the president
What is Electoral College?
300
The least number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business
What is quorum?
300
The powers the Constitution does not grant the National Government
What are reserved powers?
300
Plan of government adopted by the Continental Congress after the American Revolution, allowed few important powers to the central government
What are the Articles of Confederation?
300
A form of government where a single person holds unlimited power
What is autocracy?
400
A formal approval
What is Ratification?
400
The power to execute, enforce and administer law
What is Executive Power?
400
Powers delegated to the national government
What are Concurrent Powers?
400
The constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis
What is the Division of Powers?
400
An annual congress of delegates from each of the thirteen colonies, proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
500
Introduction to a constitution
What is Preamble?
500
The head executive power of the nation's government
What is the president?
500
Powers exercised by the National Government alone
What are Exclusive Powers?
500
Refusal to buy or sell certain products or services
What is a boycott?
500
The Senate approving the presidential appointees is called this