Category 1
They review the law and could declare laws "unconstitutional."
What is the Supreme Court?
How many Senators does each state get?
What is two?
What determines the amount of representatives each state gets in the House?
What is population size?
This amendment protects speech and religion.
What is the First Amendment?
This European country ruled the 13 colonies before the American Revolution.
What is Britain/England?
This group of people were weary of a powerful centralized government under the Constitution.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This was passed to guarantee the rights of citizens and appease the Anti-Federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Elections for representatives in the House happen this often.
What is every two years?
This branch is in charge of proposing, debating, and voting on national laws.
What is the legislative branch?
Elections for Senators happen this often.
What is every six years?
This is how long a Supreme Court Justice serves for.
What is "for life?"
Their votes elect the President of the U.S.
What is the Electoral College?
They and their cabinet are in charge of running the national government.
Who is the President of the U.S.?
Supreme Court justices are nominated by the President, and confirmed by the ______________.
What is the Senate?
What was the Articles of Confederation?
This is a term that refers to the writers of the Constitution.
These are the three branches of the national government.
What is legislative, executive, and judicial?
This merge the Virginia and New Jersey plans under a two-chamber Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This was implemented to ensure that no one branch becomes too powerful in the national government.
What is checks and balances?
This is a way that the president can "check" the legislative branch.
What is a veto?
This kind of majority is needed in Congress to amend the Constitution.
What is a two-thirds majority?
The government can't arrest you without cause because of this.
What is habeas corpus?
This philosopher during the Enlightenment was influential with his beliefs of "natural rights."
Who was John Locke?
What uprising demonstrated the flaws of the Articles of Confederation?
What was Shay's Rebellion?
This is the military conflict that left England in debt and caused them to place taxes without representation on the colonies.
What was the French and Indian War?