Chapter 4-5 Flashcards
A document given permission to create a government, and providing plans as to how that government should work
Charter
Dividing government power, legislative, executive, and judicial
Separation of powers
Abuse of power
Tyranny
rights people are born with no government can take away such as the rights of life liberty and property
Natural rights
A government in which citizens elect representatives to make laws
Republic
A form of government in which the laws are made directly by the Citizen
Direct democracy
A written agreement to make and obey laws for the welfare of the group
Compact
People who supported ratification of the Constitution because they supported a strong federal or national government
Federalists
Changes such as changes to the constitution
Amendment
Two houses as in a legislative with two houses
Bicameral
People who oppose ratification of the Constitution because they feared that a strong English government would endanger peoples liberties
Anti-federalist
Approval of an amendment to the constitution
Ratified
The division of power between the states and the federal or national government
Federalism
Powers that the Constitution neither gives to Congress nor Denise to the states
Reserved powers
Powers shared by the federal government and state government
Concurrent powers
The idea of the government was created or ran/sustained by the constant of the people
Popular sovereignty
What document outlined the reasons the colonist separated from England?
Trade taxation representation
The colonist and English government disagreed about:
Ancient Greece/ Rome English philosophers Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights
Unlike the Magna Carta The English Bill of Rights applied to:
An English citizen
Both the magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights listed:
Basic freedoms
What did the Constitutional convention originally meet to do
Revise the articles of confederation
Describe the seven articles of The Constitution
Legislative ,executive, judicial, states, amending the constitution ,supremacy of the constitution, ratification.
Describe the three examples that limit the government’s powers
Separation of powers, federalism ,checks and balances
The Constitution is organized into:
Articles
Name 4 goals of government according to the constitution
Perfect union; establish justice, domestic tranquility, common defense, general welfare, etc..
How many states finally ratified the Constitution
13
The anti-federalist was trouble because the Constitution did not include a:
Bill of Rights
Federalist offered arguments in favor of a strong:
National government
Under the articles of Confederation, most of the powers remained with the:
States
Natural rights are people’s right to:
Life, liberty, and property
The declaration of independence listed Ways the English government had:
Abuse of power
The Virginia plan proposed:
Strong national government, two houses, legislative, state size determines number representatives
The New Jersey plan proposed:
House legislator, equal representation for all states
Under the new Constitution the president would hold what power?
Executive
A group of people chosen to make laws
Legislature
