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Framers - Correct answer-wealthier and better educated than the average American
Virginia Plan - Correct answer-based on population to represent
New Jersey Plan - Correct answer-each state has equal representation
Supremacy clause - Correct answer-states that the Constitution and the laws Congress passes
have more weight than state and local laws.
Great Compromise - Correct answer-created bicameral legislature... Senate and the House
of Reps.
3/5 Compromise - Correct answer-slaves could be counted as a small population when voting
Electoral College - Correct answer-presidential voting system
Article 1 - Correct answer-Legislative Branch Article 2 - Correct
answer-Executive Branch
Article 3 - Correct answer-Judicial Branch
James Madison - Correct answer-Father of the Constitution
Limits on power - Correct answer-Federalism Limits on Power -
Correct answer-Specificity
Limits on Power - Correct answer-Checks and balances Limits
on Power - Correct answer-The Bill of Rights Limits on
Power - Correct answer-Rules for Elections
,Federalism - Correct answer-Division of power between the federal govt. and the states allows
the different levels of govt. to check each other
Specificity - Correct answer-a program developed with selected activities to improve
skills and conditioning for the purposes of achieving a goal
Checks and Balances - Correct answer-A system that allows each branch of government to limit the
powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
The Bill of Rights - Correct answer-First 10 amendments of the Const. 1st 9 limited
Congress' Power, the 10th gave states the power to make laws not included in the
Constitution.
Rules for Election - Correct answer-The voters have the power to change the govt.
435 - Correct answer-Seats in the House of Reps
100 - Correct answer-Seats in the Senate
6 years - Correct answer-Senators serve?
2 years - Correct answer-House of Reps serve?
4 years - Correct answer-President serves?
Elastic clause - Correct answer-gives congress the power to do what is necessary
Congress can - Correct answer-make laws
Congress - Correct answer-has the power of the purse
, Prohibited powers of Congress - Correct answer-Passing an ex post facto law
Prohibited powers of Congress - Correct answer-Passing a bill of attainder Prohibited
powers of Congress - Correct answer-Suspending the write of habeas corpus
Early Immigration - Correct answer-Western and northern Europe.
Second Wave - Correct answer-Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe; before and
after World War II
Recent Immigration - Correct answer-Large numbers of people from Latin America and Asia
Machine Politics - Correct answer-an organizational style of local politics in which party
bosses traded jobs, money, and favors for votes and campaign support
Liberty - Correct answer-Freedom for people to do what they want
Limited government - Correct answer-places relatively few restrictions on it's
citizens' freedom.
Laissez-faire capitalism - Correct answer-government that places relatively few
restrictions on its citizens' freedom
Equality - Correct answer-treated the same as everyone else
Political equality - Correct answer-equality in political decision making: one vote
per person, with all votes counted equally
Equality of opportunity - Correct answer-Giving people an equal chance to succeed.
Popular Sovereignty - Correct answer-rule by the people
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