Chapter 4-5

Question 1

A document given permission to create a government, and providing plans as to how that government should work

Answer 1

Charter

Question 2

Dividing government power, legislative, executive, and judicial

Answer 2

Separation of powers

Question 3

Abuse of power

Answer 3

Tyranny

Question 4

rights people are born with no government can take away such as the rights of life liberty and property

Answer 4

Natural rights

Question 5

A government in which citizens elect representatives to make laws

Answer 5

Republic

Question 6

A form of government in which the laws are made directly by the Citizen

Answer 6

Direct democracy

Question 7

A written agreement to make and obey laws for the welfare of the group

Answer 7

Compact

Question 8

People who supported ratification of the Constitution because they supported a strong federal or national government

Answer 8

Federalists

Question 9

Changes such as changes to the constitution

Answer 9

Amendment

Question 10

Two houses as in a legislative with two houses

Answer 10

Bicameral

Question 11

People who oppose ratification of the Constitution because they feared that a strong English government would endanger peoples liberties

Answer 11

Anti-federalist

Question 12

Approval of an amendment to the constitution

Answer 12

Ratified

Question 13

The division of power between the states and the federal or national government

Answer 13

Federalism

Question 14

Powers that the Constitution neither gives to Congress nor Denise to the states

Answer 14

Reserved powers

Question 15

Powers shared by the federal government and state government

Answer 15

Concurrent powers

Question 16

The idea of the government was created or ran/sustained by the constant of the people

Answer 16

Popular sovereignty

Question 17

What document outlined the reasons the colonist separated from England?

Answer 17

Trade taxation representation

Question 18

The colonist and English government disagreed about:

Answer 18

Ancient Greece/ Rome English philosophers Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights

Question 19

Unlike the Magna Carta The English Bill of Rights applied to:

Answer 19

An English citizen

Question 20

Both the magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights listed:

Answer 20

Basic freedoms

Question 21

What did the Constitutional convention originally meet to do

Answer 21

Revise the articles of confederation

Question 22

Describe the seven articles of The Constitution

Answer 22

Legislative ,executive, judicial, states, amending the constitution ,supremacy of the constitution, ratification.

Question 23

Describe the three examples that limit the government’s powers

Answer 23

Separation of powers, federalism ,checks and balances

Question 24

The Constitution is organized into:

Answer 24

Articles

Question 25

Name 4 goals of government according to the constitution

Answer 25

Perfect union; establish justice, domestic tranquility, common defense, general welfare, etc..

Question 26

How many states finally ratified the Constitution

Answer 26

13

Question 27

The anti-federalist was trouble because the Constitution did not include a:

Answer 27

Bill of Rights

Question 28

Federalist offered arguments in favor of a strong:

Answer 28

National government

Question 29

Under the articles of Confederation, most of the powers remained with the:

Answer 29

States

Question 30

Natural rights are people’s right to:

Answer 30

Life, liberty, and property

Question 31

The declaration of independence listed Ways the English government had:

Answer 31

Abuse of power

Question 32

The Virginia plan proposed:

Answer 32

Strong national government, two houses, legislative, state size determines number representatives

Question 33

The New Jersey plan proposed:

Answer 33

House legislator, equal representation for all states

Question 34

Under the new Constitution the president would hold what power?

Answer 34

Executive

Question 35

A group of people chosen to make laws

Answer 35

Legislature