The Constitution

The system that keeps any one part of the national government from becoming too powerful is called __________.

• checks and balances

• Arcles of Confederaon

The U.S. government is divided into three parts, or _____ each with its own powers and responsibilities.

• Arcles of Confederaon

• branches

The document that created a strong national government and still exists today is called the _____.

• Constitution

• Arcles of Confederaon

Delegates from most of the United States met to work on a document that created a stronger government. This meeng was called the _____.

• Arcles of Confederation

• Constitutional Convention

The document that described the first government of the United States of America was called the _____.

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

The key problem of the Articles of Confederation was that it made the national government too strong.

• True

• False

George Washington, James Madison, and Gouverneur Morris were three figures at the Constitutional Convention.

• True

• False

During the Constuonal Convenonal, there were no disagreements. The delegates all similar ideas for how the new Constitutional should be written.

• True

• False

The Constitutional created a national government that was divided into three branches: the executive, the legislate, and the judicial.

• True

• False

This branch has the power to determine whether a law is unconstuonal.

• The Legislative Branch

• The Executive Branch

• The Judicial Branch