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True or False: The Great Compromise created a bicameral legislature.

True

A written plan of government.

Constitution

The idea that government power comes from the people.

Popular sovereignty

Congress passes a law, the president signs it, and then the Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional. What principle is being demonstrated?

Checks and balances

A state lowers its voting age to 16 for state elections, but not for federal elections. Which principle of government helps explain why states can have some different rules from each other?

Federalism

Congress passes a law creating a national bank even though the Constitution does not specifically list “create a bank” as a power. What constitutional clause would supporters use to justify this?

The Necessary and Proper Clause

What clause requires states to respect one another’s public acts, records, and court decisions?

Full Faith and Credit Clause

What clause allows Congress to make laws that are necessary and proper for carrying out its powers? Hint: is also where we derive the concept of implied powers.

The Necessary and Proper Clause/ elastic clause

What clause says federal law is the supreme law of the land?

The Supremacy Clause

Which compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation?

The Three-Fifths Compromise

What compromise created a two-house Congress?

The Great Compromise

What protection did Anti-Federalists most want added to the Constitution?

A Bill of Rights

Which group worried that the new national government would become too powerful?

Anti-Federalists

Which group supported ratification of the Constitution?

Federalists

If both a state and the national government pass laws on the same issue and they conflict, which law wins?

The national law, because of the Supremacy Clause

Powers kept by the states are called what?

Reserved powers

Powers shared by both the national and state governments are called what?

Concurrent powers

Powers specifically given to the national government are called what?

Enumerated powers

What is federalism?

A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments

The Supreme Court can declare a law unconstitutional. Which constitutional principle does this help maintain?

Checks and balances or limited government

What does limited government mean?

Government is not all-powerful and must obey the law

What constitutional principle allows each branch to limit the powers of the other branches?

Checks and balances

What constitutional principle divides power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?

Separation of powers

Why did many Americans originally support a weak national government under the Articles?

They feared a strong central government like the British monarchy

What event showed the weaknesses of the Articles and convinced many leaders that changes were needed?

Shays’ Rebellion

Name 3 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

No power to tax, no national judiciary, unanimous consent to amend, no ability to regulate commerce, no ability to raise a national army, no executive branch

Which founding document says that people have the right to alter or abolish a government that does not protect their rights?

The Declaration of Independence

According to the social contract, where does government get its power?

From the consent of the governed (the people)

What Enlightenment thinker argued that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property?

John Locke

What document was the first governing framework of the United States?

The Articles of Confederation