Branches of government
This branch of government has the power to make laws and frame public policies.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The Constitution includes this concept that the government is restricted in what it may do, and every individual has certain rights that the government can't take away.
What is limited government?
This concept states that a government only exists with the consent of the government.
What is popular sovereignty?
Anti-Federalists insisted that a bill of rights be added to the Constitution in order to do this.
What is protect individual rights from the power of the central government?
This Amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This branch of government has the power to execute, enforce, and administer laws.
What is the executive branch?
This is the term for a 2-house legislature.
What is bicameral?
This concept states that powers granted to new governments were divided among legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers?
This amendment in the Bill of Rights protects the freedom of speech, religion, and the press.
What is the First Amendment?
This branch of government includes the court system.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This branch of government has the power to interpret laws, determine their meaning, and settle disputes that arise within society.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This concept in the Constitution was taken from the Magna Carta. "No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned...or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land...."
What is the guarantee of due process?
This idea states that each branch of government was given powers with which to check or restrain the actions of the other branches of government.
What is checks and balances?
This amendment provides for the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
This system of government is where power is divided between a central authority and regional governments.
What is federalism?
This branch is made up of the President, Vice President, Cabinet, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies.
What is the Executive Branch?
This is the group of people who favored ratification of the new Constitution.
What is federalists?
He was elected as the first president of the United States under the new Constitution.
Who is George Washington?
This amendment in the Bill of Rights protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
In a federal system, this level of government is responsible for issues such as national defense and foreign policy.
What is central government?
Congress makes up this branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This was the nation's first constitution. It was weak and left most powers to the states.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
The number of colonies that needed to ratify the constitution before it could go into effect.
What is nine?
The Connecticut Compromise declared that Congress would be bicameral. The second feature of the compromise included this.
What is in the Senate, states would represented equally, in the House, the states would be represented based on population?
This clause in the Constitution affirms the supremacy of federal law over state law in cases of conflict.
What is the Supremacy Clause?