Constitution

Congress has the power to...

• Borrow money

• collect taxes

• regulate trade

• declare war

The plan that combined the New Jersey & Virginia Plans and created our legislative branch was called

• The Good Compromise

• The Connecticut Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• The New Virginia Plan

The executive branch _____________ the laws

• enforces

• executes

• creates

• debates in the House of Representatives

Large states at the Constitutional Convention prefered which plan?

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Madison Plan

• New York State Plan of Union

What was the name given to the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution that protect individual freedoms?

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• The Federalist Papers

• The Great Compromise

concurrent

• superior

• shared

• supported

• successful

The 3/5 compromise dealt with what topics?

• representation & slavery

• representation & federal hate crimes

• Southern aggression

• Northern aggression

Which statement describes a similarity between the Florida Constitution and the U.S. Constitution?

• neither protects individual rights

• both include an amendment process

• neither provides for a chief executive

• both include a nine member Supreme Court

This compromise solved the conflict over counting slaves towards representation in Congress.

• Missouri Compromise

• Great Compromise

• 3/5ths Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

"Our country is too large to have all affairs directed by a single government." - Thomas Jefferson

Based off this quote, what political position did Thomas Jefferson have?

• Anti-Federalism

• Federalism