Term for the division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
100
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
What are the three branches of government?
100
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
100
The year the Constitution was ratified.
What is 1788?
100
The president's power to reject a bill proposed by Congress.
What is a veto?
200
The principle that each branch of government can exercise control over the others.
What is checks and balances?
200
Nine
What is the number of Supreme Court Justices?
200
The number of amendments.
What is twenty-seven?
200
The term for the group of individuals, including Patrick Henry, that opposed ratification of the Constitution as it was written.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
200
The Supreme Court's power to declare laws passed by Congress as unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
300
Principle that power is divided between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
300
The term for the powers given to Congress, which are directly stated in the Constitution.
What are Expressed Powers?
300
The article of the Constitution that discusses the process for amending the Constitution.
What is Article V?
300
The number of states that were required to ratify the Constitution for it to take effect.
What is nine?
300
A formal accusation of misconduct against an elected official.
What is impeachment?
400
Principle that the Constitution specifically lists the powers the government has and doesn't have, thus restricting the actions the government can take.
What is limited government?
400
Term for all the thousands of employees that make up the executive branch.
What is the federal bureaucracy?
400
The term for all the steps the government must take before you can be deprived of life, liberty, or property, which is discussed in the 5th Amendment.
What is due process of law?
400
The compromise that settled how states would count slaves towards their population.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
400
Group charged with deciding whether or not to remove an impeached president from office.
What is the Senate?
500
Principle that the people rule.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
The clause that gives Congress the power to make all laws that are necessary and proper.
What is the elastic clause?
500
The amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
The plan originally favored by larger states for determining how many representatives each state would have.
What is the Virginia Plan?
500
The only branch not recognized in the Presidential Line of Succession.