A New Plan of Government

The "Supreme Law of the Land" is known as the _______________.

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Checks and Balances

He believed that all people have natural rights.

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• Edmund Randolph

• Benedict Arnold

He proposed that government powers should be separate and balanced against each other.

• Marquis de Lafayette

• George Mason

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Nathaniel Hale

____________________ is known as the sharing of powers between the Federal and state governments.

• Checks and balances

• Federalism

• Communism

• mercantilism

A change to the Constitution is called a/an __________________.

• Amendment

• ratify

• nullify

• None of these are correct

Which branch of the Federal Government is headed by the President?

• Law making Branch

• The Judicial Branch

• The Executive Branch

• The Legislative Branch

This document was used as a model to write the Constitution.

• Monroe Doctrine

• English Bill of Rights of 1689

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

System that keeps one branch of government from gaining too much power is called ___________________________.

• Court system

• System of Checks and Balances

• Legislative system

• Feudal system

This group is involved in elect ting he President.

• Senate

• Congress

• Supreme Court

• Electoral College

The people who shaped the Constitution were known as the ___________________________.

• Constructors

• Congress

• Framers

• Good ole Boys