The House
The number of representatives is set by....
What is the census?
Maddison is known as the __________________
what is the Father of the Constitution?
535
What is the voting members of Congress?
Complete the clause.
"We the people ____________________ in order to form a more perfect union..."
What are The United States?
The power of each branch of government is set so it is not absolute.
What are checks and balances?
A representative in Congress must be ________ years old.
What is 25?
Federalist 10 discusses the dangers of _____________
What is Faction?
The Senate and the House
What is the Congress
Montesquieu Jefferson and Maddison reference the _____________ in there writings about justice.
What is the General Welfare
The appointment power of the US President is subject to the "advice and Consent of the ____________.
What is the Senate?
A person must be a citizen before serving as a Representative?
What is 7 years?
James Maddison was a representative for ________ at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Commonwealth of Virginia
The only place legislation is supposed to be made
Complete this clause.
"...and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our _____________,
What is Posterity?
Complete this phrase
“[I]n the federal _________ of the United States… all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.”
What is the Republic?
Bills that set the ____________ must originate in the House of Representatives.
What are tax and spending?
Maddison's wife.
Who is Dolly Maddison?
Congressional Committees have oversight of the _______________
The Executive Branch
The preamble sets up the ______ of the framers for the U.S. Constituiton
What are the goals or intentions?
Complete this Hamiltonian Phrase
Give All the _____________ to the many and they will Oppress the few. Give all the __________ to the few and they will oppress the many.
What is Power?
The Leader of the House is voted in by the members and was considered by the founders as the most influential person in the government. That role is currently held by __________
Who is the speaker Mike Johnson.
Liberty is to faction what air is to_______, an aliment without which it instantly expires
What is Fire?
Complete this quote.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a __________________ and _________________
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The Constitution of the United States is ___________ ________________
What are Ordained and Established?
The government of the United States of America.
Federal Republic