Unit 3 the Constitution Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• the electoral college

• The group of people who actually elect the President and Vice President as a result of the Presidential Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

• This proposal and later Compromise by Roger Sherman of Connecticut made Congress bicameral.  The Senate would be set up according the New Jersey Plan (equal representation) and the House of Representatives according to the Virginia Plan (based on population). 

• The Federalist Papers

• The political group that was in favor of approving the Constitution

• Federalists

• Series of articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison that helped get the Constitution ratified

• The Great Compromise

• The Constitutional compromise that stated how slaves would be counted in terms of population for apportionment of representation in the House of Representatives. Every 5 slaves would count as 3 free persons.

Match the following

• New Jersey Plan

• The political group that was opposed to ratifying the Constitution. They feared a strong central government with no bill of rights

• The Virginia Plan

• This plan for the new Constitution said that Congress would be bicameral with both houses based on population

• ratify

• the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution

• Antifederalists

• This plan for the new Constitution said that Congress would be unicameral and representation would be based on equal vote. 

• the US Bill of Rights

• to approve, or vote yes

Match the following

• strict interpretation

• those who believe Congress should be able to make any laws the Constitution does not specifically forbid

• loose interpretation

• those who believe Congress should make only the kinds of laws mentioned by the Constitution

• necessary and proper clause

• this clause found in Article I of the Constitution that gives Congress it's implied powers

• federalism

• a form of government in which power is divided between federal government and the states

• amend

• to change, add or fix; as in making a change or addition to the Constitution

Match the following

• checks and balances

• the notion, idea, that power of government lies with the people

• popular sovereignty

• powers that Congress, or the federal government, has that are specifically listed in the Constitution

• expressed (enumerated) powers

• the split of authority among the legislative, executive and judicial branches

• supremacy clause

• a system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain the power of the others

• separation of powers

• this clause in Article VI in the Constitution says that the Constitution and other laws made by the national government are Supreme over the states.

Match the following

• reserved powers

• the "father" of the Constitution. He wrote the Virginia Plan, the Constitution and the Federalist papers.

• concurrent powers

• He presided over the Constitutional Convention

• bicameral

• having two parts, or houses, as in Congress

• James Madison

• powers shared by the state and federal governments

• George Washington

• powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government but are kept by the states (state powers)