Articles
This Article is the longest in the U.S Constitution
What is Article 1
How many judges are on the U.S Supreme Court?
What is 9
How many "houses" are currently in congress?
What is 2
What was the name of the document which established our nation's first government?
What are the articles of confederation
This word means the exchange of prisoners from state to state
What is extradition
This Article established the Judicial Branch
What is Article 3
What entity appoints a new judge to the U.S Supreme Court and who must confirm the appointment?
Who is the President and who is congress
Which legislative body must confirm presidential appointments?
What is the U.S. Senate
This came about from the proposal of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan.
What is the Great Compromise or the Connecticut plan
This group wanted a strong central government.
Who are the Federalists
This is the number of articles contained in the U.S. Constitution
What is 7
There are 94 of these in the Federal System.
What are U.S District courts
Which branch of government is congress under?
What is the legislative branch
Under this the slave states were allowed to count 60 percent of their slaves towards their total population
What was the 3/5th's compromise
Declaring war against another country can only be done by this entity.
What is congress
This Article says that the states must cooperate with each other
What is Article #4
There are 13 of these in the Federal system
What are the circuit court of appeals
Under the Articles of Confederation, congress only had 1 of these and how many votes
What is 1 house (House of Representatives and 13 votes)
The work by these two groups resulted in the Bill of Rights being added to the U.S. Constitution
Who were the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists
Washington state has 12 of these
What are 12 electoral votes. What are 10 US Representatives and 2 US Senators
Article 5 of the U.S Constitution says that this fraction of Congress must agree to add a new amendment and this fraction of the state legislatures must approve.
What is 2/3 of congress and 3/4 of the state legislatures.
These 2 types of Federal Courts do not have trials but only review cases on appeal from the lower court.
What are the circuit court of appeals and the U.S Supreme court
This is the total amount of representatives in both houses.
What is 535
Considered the "last straw", this event showed that the Articles of Confederation were not adequate and the country needed a new constitution.
What was Shay's Rebellion
This is a word which describes a system where the Federal government shares power with the state governments
What is federalism