Vocab Chapter 2

Question 1

Sovereign

Answer 1

Independent

Question 2

Bicameral

Answer 2

Composed of two houses

Question 3

Unicameral

Answer 3

Composed of a single body

Question 4

Great Compromise

Answer 4

Agreement at the Constitutional Convention splitting the legislature into two bodies: one apportioned by population and the other assigning each state two members

Question 5

Elastic Clause

Answer 5

Provision of Article I of the Constitution authorizing Congress to make those laws necessary and proper for carrying out the other laws it passes

Question 6

Supremacy Clause

Answer 6

Provision of Article VI stipulating that the federal government, in exercising any of the powers enumerated in the Constitution, must prevail over any conflicting or inconsistent state exercise of power

Question 7

Federalists

Answer 7

Supporters of the Constitution and its strong central government

Question 8

Antifederalists

Answer 8

Opponents of the ratification of the Constitution

Question 9

Faction

Answer 9

Group-most often driven by economic motives- that places its own good above the good of the nation as a whole

Question 10

Judicial Review

Answer 10

Power of the U.S Supreme Court to review that acts of other political institutions and declare them unconstitutional