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A system where each branch of government can limit the power of other branches

• veto

• ratify

• checks and balances

• amendment

To reject

• amendment

• veto

• ratify

• federalism

To approve and adopt

• ratify

• veto

• amendment

• bill

A law

• amendment

• nationalism

• veto

• ordinance

A group of people who share similar ideas about the

way the country should be governed

• amendment

• political party

• nationalism

• federalism

What was the main reason the U.S. Constitution was written?

• to set up a stronger national government

• to make states even more powerful

• to elect federal judges.

• to lower state tax rates

Why did the authors of the Constitution include a system of checks and balances?

• to make sure that every citizen would have the same freedoms

• to allow Congress to rewrite the Constitution every 20 years

• to guarantee that no one branch of the government becomes more powerful than the others

• to make the state governments more powerful than the federal government

Which group supported the Constitution? 

• federalists

• anti-federalists

Which group wanted strong state governments?

• federalists

• anti-federalists

Congress is made up of which two legislatures?

• The Senate and House of Representatives

• The House of Representatives and The President

• The Senate and The Supreme Court

• The President and the Supreme Court