U.S. Government Structure and Principles

When do people have the right to abolish or rebel against their government?

• When it is a monarchy

• When it violates natural rights

• When it establishes a religion

The Articles of Confederation were

• English documents used by the founders

• Our first attempt at a government

• Our Constitution

The Articles of Confederation laid out

• A strong central government

• A weak central government

The members of this body are elected every 2 years

• Senate

• House of Representatives

• Supreme Court

"Consent of the governed" means

• We're all equal

• We all have rights

• We are the source of government power

A national government with three branches was created by

• The Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

Federalism is

• One central government

• split power between state and national government

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are

• your natural rights

• the basis of communism

• the divine right theory

Antifederalists were against

• The Constitution

• Federalism

• The National government

Antifederalists argued against the Constitution because it called for a

• strong national government

• weak national government