7 Principles of Government
Mixed Bag
Constitutional Convention
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
100
Under this principle, people have privileges, liberties, and rights
What are Individual Rights?
100
This principle of government suggests that "We the people" control the government.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
This compromise allowed southern states to count some of their slaves for the purpose of population with regards to representation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
100
In what year was the U.S. Constitution completed?
1787
100
According to the Federalists, the U.S Constitution did NOT need a Bill of Rights because it already did this.
What is protect individual rights just fine as it is?
200
Under this principle, the people exercise their power by voting for representatives.
What is Republicanism?
200
This is the only branch of government that was present in the Articles of Confederation.
What is legislative branch?
Unicameral, Equal Representation
200
According to Anti-Federalists, who should have the power (states or federal government)?
The power should stay in the states.
200
Article 2 of the Constitution allows the president to use this power to check Congress.
What is the power of Veto?
200
The Declaration of Independence listed "Quartering large bodies of armed troops" among the list of issues that the colonies had with British rule. What amendment specifically addressed this concern?
3rd Amendment
300
Under this principle, the power to govern is shared between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
300
This weakness of the Articles of Confederation really led to Shay's Rebellion.
What is Congress did not have the power to levy taxes?
300
Southern delegates to the Constitutional Convention were willing to accept the Three-Fifths Compromise.
What is to increase their representation in the House of Representatives?
300
This process allows the constitution to change over time.
What is the amendment process?
2/3 of Congress to propose
3/4 of state legislatures to ratify
300
"For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of a Trial by Jury."
This grievance from the Declaration of Independence was addressed by this amendment to the Constitution.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
400
Under this principle, the power is divided among the three branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
400
This branch of government is responsible to enforce the laws.
What is the executive branch? (Article 2)
Legislative makes the laws (Article 1)
Judicial interprets the laws (Article 3)
400
This marriage of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan settled the issue of representation between the larger and smaller states.
What was the Great Compromise?
400
This branch of government is responsible to make the laws.
What is the legislative branch? Article 1
The executive enforces the laws (Article 2)
The judicial interprets the laws (Article 3)
400
This amendment to the US Constitution protects 5 basic freedoms.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, ,Speech
500
"The accumulation [collection] of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
—James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 47
This statement was defending this principle of government.
What is Separation of Powers
500
According to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, what was the minimum number of people required in order for a territory to apply for statehood.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 outlined the process for territories to becomes states when they had a minimum of 60,000 people.
500
Anti-Federalists didn't want to approve the Constitution because they thought it did not do this.
What is guarantee individual rights; they required a Bill of Rights.
500
“For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever . . .”
This grievance in the Declaration of Independence was addressed where in the US Constitution?
500
This amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 4th amendment?