US Constitution

What is the job of the legislative branch of the government?

• To understand the laws
• To make laws
• To obey the laws
• To carry out laws

What did the Great Compromise give us?

• The President and Vice President
• The Senate and the President
• The Congress and the Vice President
• The House and Senate

True or False: the Anti-Federalists did NOT support the Constitution

• True
• False

A system of checks and balances was built into the Constitution to prevent...

• states from passing laws that duplicate federal laws
• individual states from deciding to leave the Union.
• any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
• the federal government from spending more money than it collects in taxes.

What was the main purpose of the Federalist papers?

• to encourage the federal government to grant rights to the people
• to persuade people to support a strong federal government
• to describe the roles of different branches of the federal government
• to defend the federal government against accusations of corruption

Shays' Rebellion helped point out weaknesses in which of the following documents?

• the Constitution
• the Federalist Papers
• the Articles of Confederation
• the Declaration of Independence

The term separation of powers in the U.S. government refers to separate powers given to

• the president and the Cabinet.
• the Senate and the House of Representatives
• the federal, state, and local levels.
• the executive, legislative, and judicial branches

A federal system is government with power shared between

• People and Government

• State and Local governments

• National and State governments

• Bourgeoise and Proletariat

WHAT DOCUMENT DID THE U.S. CONSTITUTION REPLACE THAT WAS TOO WEAK?

• ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
• DECLARATION OF INDPENDENCE
• TREATY OF PARIS
• MONROE DOCTRINE