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WorksheetsGOVERNMENT QUIZ/VOCAB
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
This amendment allows freedom of different types of communication (RAPPS)
1st
4th
3rd
8th
Match the following
3/5 Compromise
Taxation for Representation
Senate
Resulted in a bicameral congress
Constitution
Took 2 compromises & a Bill of Rights
Great Compromise
More power in the states
Anti-Federalists
Equal votes (2)
Small states wanted it
Other words for the FEDERAL government (big government in Washington, DC)
Local
National
Central
Municipal
Reorder the following
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Great Compromise
3/5 Compromise
Bill of Rghts
This 9 letter word means that we have 2 houses of Congress/Legislature
(a)
Combined, the House of Representatives PLUS the Senate create our national...(2 choices)
POLITICIANS
CONGRESS
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
LEGISLATURE
Our main government in Washington DC can be called federal, national or even the ------- government
(a)
This group of men wrote a series of arguments that the Constitution was enough, we did not need a Bill of Rights AND that the government should be strong and stable.
(a)
This is a law regarding land use...
Ordinance
Citation
Bill
Invoice
This law regarding land use helped create an orderly expansion of the territory America received in the Treaty of Paris
(a)
A guiding idea for how our government should be run is a...
principal
thought
principle
suggestion
What right does the 4th amendment cover?
states rights
search & seizure
due process
quartering
The 5th amendment includes DUE PROCESS...what does this mean? (check what applies)
right to be heard
right to call witnesses
right to not self-incriminate
no cruel punishment
This principle of government means the PEOPLE RULE...and they do so by VOTING
federalism
popular sovereignty
individual rights
checks & balances
This principle of government is influenced by the Magna Carta (1215) and means no one is above the law
limited government
federalism
separation of powers
republicanism
This principle of government means that one branch of government can approve, or deny the action of another
federalism
limited government
republicanism
checks and balances
This principle of government is very much like a job description...each branch has it's role to play in government
federalism
checks and balances
separation of powers
republicanism
2 levels of government, (national & state) share some powers and have some of their own powers....this principle is... (it is also the 10th amendment)
federalism
limited government
popular sovereignty
checks and balances
This principle of government means we, Americans, get to ELECT our REPS
limited government
popular sovereignty
federalism
republicanism
The belief in this principle is a reason we have our Bill of Rights, that we have privileges we are born with and given
republicanism
individual rights
limited government
federalsim
