Foundations of Government
This document is the supreme law of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
This compromise decided how enslaved people would be counted for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The branch of government that makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This principle means the government is not all-powerful.
What is limited government?
This group supported the Constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
The Constitution was written in this year.
What is 1787?
This compromise created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This compromise created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This principle means everyone must follow the law.
What is rule of law?
This group feared a strong national government.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
The meeting where the Constitution was written.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The type of legislature created by the Great Compromise.
What is bicameral?
The type of legislature created by the Great Compromise.
What is bicameral?
This principle means power is shared between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
What Anti-Federalists demanded before ratification.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The first government plan of the United States that did not work well.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This clause gives Congress the power to regulate trade between states.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This clause gives Congress the power to regulate trade between states.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This principle divides government into three branches.
What is separation of powers?
How Supreme Court justices are chosen.
What is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate?
One major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Congress could not tax states?
The reason compromises were needed when writing the Constitution.
What is the states disagreed on power and representation?
The reason compromises were needed when writing the Constitution.
What is the states disagreed on power and representation?
This principle allows each branch to limit the others.
What is checks and balances?
How long Supreme Court justices serve.
What is for life?