A New Naron And State Flashcards
(23 cards)
It was too -------- to meet the needs of a new nations A- strong B- slow C-weak D- medium
C- weak
The United States was governed by what?
Articles of confederations
It became clear that there was need for a new ———- to be written which gave it unicameral-one government and each states had 1 vote and gave power to the states rather than the national government
Constitution
There was two main planed for the US constitutional convention. What were the main two groups?
The Virginia Plan and The New Jersey Plan
What did the Virginia Plan want? Who was it written by?
Written by James Madison
Wanted a government with 3 branches 1. Judicial 2. Legislative
3. Executive
It was called a bicameral national legislature with representation based on population
What did The New Jersey Plan?
Representation in congress was to be equal between all states
The Connecticut Plan or known the great compromise says?
The Virginia plan was used for the three branches of government and New Jersey Plan was used for the senate (equal =2 per state)
How did they count slaves? What was the New Compromise?
Counting slaves would benefit the states with tons of slaves but not others so they came up with the 3/5 compromise every 5 slaves equal 3 people
The constitution is the ———- —– of the land
Supreme law
The ———/—–/——— provided a writing guarantee of individual rights
Bill of rights
Strict interpretation
The belief that people should follow exactly what was stated and allowed in the constitution
Loose interpretation?
The belief that people can take whatever action they want, as long as the constitution did not specifically state you couldn’t do it
The authority for government flows from the people?
Popular sovereignty
Unalienable rights are guaranteed to all citizens in the preamble and the bill of rights
Individual rights
The federal system divides government powers between national government and the government of the states
Federalism
The structure of the new national government established three separate branches of government to limit the power of any one branches
Separation of powers
Is the United States congress which makes laws. Congress is a two-house legislature. Judicial branch consists of federal
The legislative branch
Is headed by the president and carried out the laws. The vise president and the secretaries of all departments are also in the executive branch
The executive branch
Each branch can check the power of the other. These checks keeps any one branch from gaining too much power
Checks and balances
Powers of the government are restricted by the constitution as stated in articles 1,2,3
Limited government
The constitution recognizes that the authority of the government derives from “we, the people”
Representative democracy
Each state has a constitution
State constitution
A compromise was riches that promised that the federal government would not tax exports and imports
Commerce compromise
