The Constitution (Brainpop)

The Constitution is America’s _____________

• plan for government

• first constitution

• declaration of independence

______ means that the people rule

• Unitary system

• Judicial branch

• Popular sovereignty

Federalism is a way of governing that ________

• shares power between a monarch and the people

• shares power between states and the whole nation

• puts all the power into one person

The Constitution splits up the government’s powers between the ______________________

• executive, monarchy, and federal branches

• executive, legislative, and judicial branches

• confederal, unitary, and legislative branches

In _________, the government only has the powers granted to it in the Constitution

• a limited government

• an unlimited government

• a confederal system

The people who wrote the ___________ are called the Framers or the Founding Fathers

• Branches

• Federalism

• Constitution

Limiting the powers of government means creating a system of government where the government can NOT do whatever it wants...it has certain (limited) powers.

• True

• False

The framers limited the power of the federal government through the separation of powers and the________

• system of a monarchy and unitary

• system of the Preamble

• system of checks and balances

The framers ____________ of the federal government through the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances

• created the name

• limited the power

• limited the time

The Constitution granted all citizens individual _______ that the government can’t take away

• rights

• property

• representatives