Comprehensive Review

States that powers not given to the Federal government or denied to the States, are powers reserved for the States (people).

• 10th Amendment
• 4th Amendment
• 6th Amendment
• 8th Amendment

The Supreme Court interprets the law

• Federalism
• Separation of Powers
• Checks and Balances
• Limited Government

"The powers not delegated to the United States… are reserved to the States respectively…"

• Republicanism
• Federalism
• Separation of Powers
• Checks and Balances

"The President… shall have Power, by which the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur."

• Separation of Powers
• Checks and Balances
• Limited Government
• Individual Rights

Ted Cruz (Texas) was elected to the United States Senate in 2012

• Republicanism
• Federalism
• Separation of Powers
• Checks and Balances

A system by which each branch of government limits power of other branches

• Individual Rights

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Republicanism

What document was written in 1787?

• Articles of Confederation
• Declaration of Independence 
• Common Sense
• U.S. Constitution 

What event made national leaders fear that the Articles of Confederation were too weak?

• Boston Tea Party
• Constitutional Convention
• Shays' Rebellion
• Treaty of Paris

The first plan of government for the US was the 

• Constitution
• Articles of Confederation
• Bill of Rights
• Declaration of Independence

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Which of the following decided how slaves would be counted into the figuring a state’s population?

• The Virginia Plan

• Three-fifths Compromise

• The New Jersey Plan

• The Great Compromise