The checks and balances was created as a way of doing this to power.
What is separating it? (Separation of powers)
100
Name the three branches of government created by the Constitution.
What is executive, judicial, and legislative?
100
This principle of goverment ensures that the rights of the minority are not denied.
What is Limited Government?
100
This plan was created by the smaller states, and desired a one-house congress in which the states had equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
200
This means to defeat a veto on a bill.
What is override?
200
These were powers given to Congress that were not written down.
What is implied powers?
200
This was created to ensure that one branch of government did not become more powerful than another.
What is the system of checks and balances?
200
This principle of the US government supports the system of checks and balances.
What is Separation of Powers?
200
This compromise was made between the North and the South and dealth with trade and taxing of imports.
What is the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
300
This is to reject a bill.
What is veto?
300
These are powers specifically given only to the national government.
What is enumerated powers?
300
This is what is laid out in Article I of the Constitution.
What is the powers of Congress?
300
This principle of government gives people the right, or power to rule themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This plan was favored by the larger states and proposed a federal government with a president, courts, and a congress with 2 houses; representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
This is a group of people who elect the President and the Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
400
This is the type of power given only to the states.
What is reserved powers?
400
This is what is outlined in Article II of the Constitution.
What is the powers of the President and the Vice President (executive branch)?
400
This principle of US government creates a system in which the national government and the states share power.
What is federalism?
400
This compromise was made following the South's plea for more votes in Congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
500
This was any person who supported the Constitution and a strong national government before 1789.
What is a Federalist?
500
This is the power shared by both the national government and the states.
What is concurrent powers?
500
This is what is outlined in Article III of the Constitution.
What is the powers of the Supreme Court and other federal courts (judicial branch)?
500
This states that the Constitution and the national laws are the "supreme law of the land".
What is the supremacy clause?
500
This plan/compromise came about when both the large and small states agreed to have 2 houses, 1 that had equal representation, and 1 based on population.
What is the Connecticut Plan or the Great Compromise?