Constitution Review

The framers designed a system of checks and balances to

• share power between the national and state governments.
• make it difficult but not impossible to amend the Constitution.
• make sure that the Constitution was the supreme law of the land.
• keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.

This quote from James Madison gives the reason for the government to be divided into

• federalism

• checks and balances

• tyranny

• separate powers

The Supreme Court's power to declare a law unconstitutional is known as

• judicial review.
• veto power.
• federalism.
• the amendment process.

The Preamble's first three words tell us that the authority of the Constitution comes from

• the Constitutional Convention.
• members of Congress.
• state legislatures.
• ordinary Americans.

distribution of power between Federal and state governments

• Federalism

• checks and balances

• separation of powers

• Bill of Rights

each branch of gov't is subject to certain restraints by the other two

• checks and balances

• limited government

• Great Compromise

• Veto

allowed a House of Rep. based on population and gave equal representation the in the Senate

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Articles of Confederation

• Great Compromise

to officially approve a bill or law

• veto

• ratify

• popular sovereignty

• thumbs up

those against the ratification of the Constitution

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

set of rules or principles that guide a nation's government

• limited government

• constitution

• federalist

• popular sovereignty