Foundations of Government
The United States has this type of government power structure.
What is federal? (Federalism)
The Bill of Rights was drafted to protect these.
Our rights/freedoms/individualism/etc.
These are the two main areas of power in a federal system.
This article of the Constitution established the legislative branch.
What is Article 1?
This amendment protects our freedoms of speech/religion/press.
What is the First Amendment?
This was a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is no ability to tax/raise an army/manage foreign affairs/manage interstate conflicts
(answers may vary)
This type of government has an unelected leader who serves for life. They can be "constitutional" or "absolute".
What is monarchy?
This document is the foundation of our government.
What is the Constitution?
This was the U.S. style of government before we ratified the Constitution.
What is confederal?
This article of the Constitution goes over the amendment process.
What is Article 5?
The first ten amendments are also known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This type of government involves a small group of people governing to their own interests.
What is oligarchy? (aristocracy)
This document established the concept of limited government in the early 1200s.
What is the Magna Carta?
These are the powers that are written out in the Constitution.
What are expressed/enumerated powers?
There have been this many amendments to the Constitution.
What is 27?
This amendment protects rights not listed in the Constitution.
What is the 9th Amendment?
This is a conception of something in its most perfect form.
What is an ideal?
This Constitutional Compromise is the reason we have proportional representation in the House of Representatives, and equal representation in the Senate.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
These are the powers that only state governments receive.
What are the reserved powers?
An amendment needs this amount of support in both houses of Congress to be proposed to the states.
What is 2/3rds?
This amendment was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
What is the 18th? (Prohibition)
This principle states that individuals have the right to make their own economic decisions.
What is free enterprise?
This event proved that the Articles of Confederation were a failure.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
These are powers that are shared between the two layers of government.
What are concurrent powers?
There are two ways an amendment can be proposed to the Constitution. This method has never been used.
What is calling a National/Constitutional Convention?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
There are four factors of production. Name two of them.
Labor, Land, Capital, Entrepreneurship
This was the only state to not attend the Constitutional Convention.
What is Rhode Island?
This type of federalism was popularized by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
What is Creative Federalism?
This many amendments have been proposed to the states for ratification.
What is 33?
This amendment bans any person from serving more than two presidential terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?