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Constitution Test Study Guide Exam With Complete Q’s and A’s
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Constitution Test Study Guide Exam WithComplete Q’s and A’s
Articles of Confederation - -First gov't in United States, gave too much power
to the states, replaced by the Constitution
-Constitution - -written plan of gov't, written in 1787- greatly strengthened
the power of the federal gov't
-Great Compromise - -compromise at the Constitutional Convention to
create a bicameral (two house) legislature (Congress), satisfied demands of
the states with more people because a House of Representatives was
created to be based on a state's population and the less populated states got
equal representation in the Senate
-3/5ths Compromise - -at the Constitutional Convention settled debate over
how to count a state's enslaved people, said each slave would count as
3/5ths of a white person
-Federalism - -gov't in which power is divided between the individual states
and the federal (or central) gov't, but federal gov'ts power is stronger
-delegated powers - -powers given to the federal gov't only- coin money,
declare war, patents and copyrights, immigration and citizenship, weights
and measures etc.
-reserved powers - -powers given to the state gov'ts only- education,
marriage and divorce, how to conduct elections, driving and traffic laws,
education, etc.
-shared or concurrent powers - -powers given to both state and federal
gov'ts- making laws, court system, building and maintaining roads
-implied powers - -comes from "elastic clause", Congress can write laws
that are "necessary and proper" to carrying out the powers listed in the
Constitution that they have- examples- military draft, national bank
-denied powers - -things the gov't cannot do: suspend habeas corpus, tax
exports, ex post facto, etc.
-original constitution - -constitution written in 1787 without the Bill of Rights
or other amendments
, -unwritten constitution - -gov't practices not written in the constitution: ex-
cabinet, nominating conventions, congressional committees, political parties
-republic - -gov't in which people elect people to represent them and make
laws for them- ex- House of Representatives (in original constitution bc this
was the only directly elected chamber in federal gov't then)
-popular sovereignty - -from the preamble..."We the People" shows people
have the power, or power comes from the people!!!!!
-separation of powers - -federal gov't is separated into three branches-
legislative, executive and judicial
-checks and balances - -system in the constitution to keep one branch from
becoming too powerful or more powerful than the others
-legislative branch - -MAKES LAWS, is Congress (House of Reps and Senate)
bicameral legislature (two houses), found in article 1
-executive branch - -ENFORCES AND CARRIES OUT LAWS, consists of the
President, Vice President, and Cabinet
-Presidential roles or jobs - -"Chief"
1.executive (appoints/fires/sets ex. branch budget)
2. legislator (recommends bills, vetoes or signs bills)
3. diplomat (negotiates treaties, recognizes counties meets with foreign
leaders- determines foreign policy- greatest unchecked power)
4. commander in chief (head of military)
5. party- (attends party fundraisers, campaigns for party members)
6. guardian of the economy (taxes, jobs etc.)
7. state (symbolic leader activities- attending funerals, etc.)
-role of Vice President - -to win votes in presidential election and support
party goals, once in office- to break a tie in the Senate
-Presidential qualifications - -35 years old, in US for 14 years, natural born
citizen
-elected position with the shortest term and why - -House of
Representatives member (two years), because this group is the closest to
the people/most direct representative, should be the most responsive to
them
-bill to a law (correct sequence) - -standing committee, floor vote, (both
houses), conference committee if compromise on the bill is needed,
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