Principles Flashcards

How does the U.S. government avoid tyranny by not placing too much power in the hands of one individual?

• By allowing two thirds of Congress to propose a law

• The Supreme Court Justices serve for life

• By allowing the Treaty of Paris to officially end the American Revolution

• The powers of the federal government are divided among three branches.

The President shall have power, with the consent of the Senate to pass a bill into law. This is an example of

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Judicial Review

• Republicanism

_________ distrusted the central government and demanded that a Bill of Rights be added to the Constitution. Afraid of losing STATE and INDIVIDUAL Rights.

• Federalists

• Antifederalists

• Puritans

• Sons of Liberty

The President vetoing a bill from Congress is an example of 

• Checks and Balances
• Popular Sovereignty
• Unalienable Rights
• Judicial Review

The legislative branch has the power to create laws, but it does not have the power to enforce laws because of ....

• Republicanism
• Popular Sovereignty
• Separation of Powers
• Federalism

Bicameral legislature was created as a solution for both large and small states

• Articles of Confederation

• Great Compromise

• right to petition the government

• Three-fifths compromise

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited to it by the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

• popular sovereignty
• checks and balances
• federalism
• republicanism

What gives the people a voice in the government?

• Voting

• Free Speech

• Speedy Trial

• Reading the press

The U.S. Constitution has system of checks and balances in order to prevent ...

• the federal government from gaining too much power over the states
• any state from abolishing slavery
• any one branch of government from becoming too powerful 
• the passage of the Virginia Plan

Executive: Enforce Laws

Legislative: Creates Laws

Judicial : Interpretes Laws

• popular sovereignty

• checks and balances

• separation of power

• republicanism