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Vocabulary
Powers of the people,federal government, and state government
Ratifying the Constitution
Organization of the Executive Branch
Vocabulary(2)
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When the people of a nation decide how to delegate their power
What is a Federal System of Government
100
Three powers that the people delegate to the federal or national government
What is the power to create post offices the power to regulate interstate and foreign trade the power to declare and conduct war the power to create a national currency
100
The set of newspapers written by Alexander Hamiltion, John Jay, and James Madison to support the ratification of the constitution
What is the Federalist papers
100
Department lead by Thomas Jefferson to serve as the secretary of state to deal with the foreign relations of the nation
What is Department of state
100
Someone who supports the ratification of the constitution
What is Federalist
200
A person who does not want the constitution to be ratified and put into place
What is an Anti-Federalist
200
Three powers that the people delegate to each of there state governments
What is the power to regulate trade within the state the power to establish public schools the power to create traffic and vehicle laws the power to regulate marriage and divorce practices
200
A word meaning to approve or support something
What is Ratify
200
The department led by Alexander Hamilton as secretary of treasury to deal with the money matters of the nation
What is Department of treasury
200
The power of the supreme court to consider a law not legally enforceable as it is unconstitutional
What is Judicial Review
300
The law that states the U.S. Supreme Court was to have one chief of justice and five associate justices?
What is The Judiciary Act of 1789
300
Four shared powers of the federal government and each state governments
What is the power to make their own laws the power to tax the people the power to borrow money the power to create there own court system the power to provide for the health and welfare of the people
300
The plan to get voters to ratify the constitution at special conventions in each state
What is Madison's plan to get voters to ratify the constitution
300
The department led by Henry Knox to deal with the military affairs and defense of the nation
What is Department of war
300
What gave the president the powers over illegal aliens entering the country and what made it illegal for the press to criticize the government
What is Alien and Sedition Acts
400
Groups of people that join together because they have similar political views about government?
What is Political Parties
400
Four rights or powers that the people have kept for themselves
What is the right to believe what we wish the right to form organizations the right to select our careers and live our lives as we choose the right to choose our friends the right to travel where we wish the right to raise a family
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The arguements made by the anti-federalists to make people believe that ratification of the constitution was not a good idea
What is the national government having too much power, the constitution not providing for a republican government, and that the constitution does not have a bill of rights
400
The position of Edmund Randolph whose job is to give legal advice to the president
What is Attorney general
400
The form of money that a country uses
What is Currency
500
A law that cannot be legally enforced because it is considered unconstitutional
What is null and void
500
Four limits on the powers of the state government
What is tax exports spend money in a way that is not approved by law enact laws that favor trade in one state but not in others exercise powers that belong to the states suspend the right to a writ of habeas corpus, except in a national emergency
500
To get people to ratify the constitution the federalists had to make one change in the constitution
What is the addition of the bill of rights to the constituion
500
The officials appointed to help George Washington run the Executive Branch of the government
What is The Presidents cabinet
500
The supreme ruler
What is Sovereign