Beacon Govt. Review so Far - PO,OG,Con.Cong

The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies. 

• Government

• Constitution

• Sovereignty

The power to make law and to frame public policies.

• Legislative Power

• Executive Power

• Judicial Power

The body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures and processes of a government.

• Common Law

• Constitution

• Government

A body of people living in a defined territory, organized politically and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority.

• State

• Borough

• Colony

What document justified the American revolution through the social contract theory? 

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution

In this type of government, the powers of  government are divided between a central government and several local governments.

• Confederation

• Unitary Government

• Federal Government

Those in favor of ratification of the Constitution

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

• Constitutionalists

In the Three-Fifths Compromise, "All Other Persons"  meant this.

• Slaves

• Women

• Children

He wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

The small state plan for government presented at the Constitutional Convention, it kept the unicameral Congress of the Confederation with each state equally represented regardless of size.

• Connecticut Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan