Chapter 2: The Constitution

Question 1

Unalineable

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The human right based on nature or God

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Articles of Confederation

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A weak constitution that governed America during the revolutionary war

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Constitutional convention

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A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

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Shay’s rebellion

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A 1787 rebellion in which ex-Revolutionary war soldiers attempted to prevent foreclosures of farms as a result of high interest rates and taxes

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Virginia Plan

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Proposal to create a strong national government

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New Jersey plan

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Proposal to create a weak national government

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Great Compromise

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Plan to have a popularity elected House based on state population and a state-selected Senate to members for each state

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Republic

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Government in which elected representatives make the decisions

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Judicial review

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The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional

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Federalism

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Government authority shared by national and local governments

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Enumerated powers

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Powers given to the national alone

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Reserved powers

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Powers given to the state government alone

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Concurrent powers

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Powers shared by the national and state governments

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Separation of powers

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Constitutional authority is shared by three different branches of government

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check and balances

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Authority shared by three branches of government

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faction

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A group with a distinct political interest

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Federalists

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Those who favor a stronger national government

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Antifederalists

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Those who favor a weaker national government

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Coalition

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An alliance of groups

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habeas corpus

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An order to produce an arrested person before a judge

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Bill of Attainder

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A law that declares a person, without trial, to be guilty of a crime

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Ex post facto law

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A law that makes an act criminal even though the act was legal when it was committed

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Bill of Rights

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First ten amendments to the Constitution

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line-item veto

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An executive’s ability to block a particular provision in a bill passed by the legislature

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The principal goal of the American Revolution was

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liberty

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In 1776, how many states adopted written constitutions?

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13

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The Articles of Confederation created a

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league of friendship

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The purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was to

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consider revisions to the Articled of Confederation

Question 29

Each state would have had an equal number of votes in the legislature under the _____ ______ plan.

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New Jersey

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The Great Compromise finally allocated representation on the basis of

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population in the House and statehood equality in the Senate

Question 31

Dividing power between the states and the national government is referred to as

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federalism

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The Declaration of Independence explicitly stated that governments were instituted among men to

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secure rights

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Pennsylvania’s government was considered “radically democratic” because it featured no

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governor

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Relative to the notion of the democratic government, the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review

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places limits on majority rule