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Checks and Balances
100
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

What is the Bill of Rights?

10 Amendments 

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

What branch of Government can make Laws?

Legislative Branch 

200

What is the Second Amendment?

The Right to Bear Arms 

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

What amendment is the self-incrimination or double Jeopardy?

5th Amendment 

300

Who wanted a strong centralized government in order to unite and be stronger going forward?

Federalists  

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

A federal court system is an example of what branch of Government?

Judicial Branch  

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

What is the 10th Amendment? 

Powers not delegated to the US through the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people

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.
What is the judicial branch?