The Articles of Confederation
The Constitutional Convention
Checks and Balances
Rule of Law + Limited Govt.
Grab Bag
100
This adjective was the primary issue with the Articles of Confederation; in other words, they were too...
What is too weak?
100
This document was created as a result of the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Constitution of the USA?
100
This is the reason for Checks and Balances.
What is to ensure that one branch does not gain too much power?
100
This idea is defined by a government where the laws are the ultimate authority, and that no one can go beyond what they say they can do.
What is the Rule of Law?
100
This is the name of Mr. McMahan's cat.
What is Blanchie?
200
The Articles of Confederation were this for America.
What is the first Constitution?
200
The Constitutional Convention did not originally mean to make a new constitution, originally they met to do this.
What is make changes to the Articles of Confederation?
200
Legislative Branch's ability to pass new laws is checked by this presidential power.
What is the veto?
200
It's not enough for the laws to be written to be fair and equally in theory, rule of law also requires that those laws this is done for those laws.
What is enforced fairly and/or equally.
200
This is a preamble's purpose.
What is to introduce the main ideas of a text/document.
300
What is the primary reason that the government was too broke to pay Daniel Shay's back pay?
What is they did not have the power to tax?
300
This word represents the two-house legislative branch we got from our "Connecticut Compromise."
What is Bicameral? 
300
The president can select judges to check the judicial branch. In other words, he does this for judges.
What is he appoints them?
300
Cases decided by precedent are decided by this.
What is the previous way a judge ruled on a similar case.
300
The word used by Enlightenment thinkers, our Founding Fathers, and Mr. McMahan to pejoratively describe an unfair, unjust, or cruel government.
What is Tyranny?
400
What branches of government did the Articles of Confederation contain?
What is the Legislative Branch?
400
In a Confederal system, all the power belongs to the states. This is different from a Federal system in this way.
In the Federal system, the states and central government share power.
400
The Judicial Branch may declare another branch's action unconstitutional by exercising this power.
What is judicial review?
400
Arbitrary decisions are made in this way.
What is they are made by someone on a whim without any constitutional/legal backing?
400
The Federalists believed this well known part of our constitution was unnecessary, and fought against its inclusion.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
What number of states did it take to amend the Articles of Confederation?
What is 13 or them?
500
This part of the Constitution, sometimes known as the "Elastic Clause," allowed the government to make any laws needed to carry out the duties listed for he government in the Constitution.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
500
Impeachment is a check by this branch, and it is used on what other branch/branches? (Full answer only!)
What is the Legislative Branch uses it to check the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch?
500
This is the specific name for an aspect of Rule of Law that means people should know how the government works and what it is doing.
What is that the government is transparent?
500
According to which of our Founding Fathers is the law the "King," of America?
Who is Thomas Paine