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3 Branches Important People

Checks and Balances

Bill of Rights

Key Terms Articles of Confederation

Powers of the Executive Branch.

A 100

What are Proposes laws, Administers the laws, Commands armed forces, Appoints ambassadors and other officials, Conducts

foreign policy, & Negotiates treaties?

Powers of the Judicial Branch.

A 200

What are Interprets the Constitution and other laws & Reviews lower

court decisions?

Powers of the Legislative Branch.

A 300

What are writes the laws, confirms Presidential appointments, ratifies treaties, grants money, &declares

war?

Presides over the impeachment trial in

the Senate.

A 400

Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

Has the power to impeach.

A 500

What is the House of Representatives?

Provided the basic ideas of the

Constitution.

B 100

Who is James Madison?

These two were divided over how to address the national

debt, how to repay bonds and what limits should be placed on the federal government.

B 200

Who are Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton?

Believed that woman needed a greater role in the

new nation.

B 300

Who is Judith Sargent Murray?

Name given to farmers in the Whiskey

Rebellion.

B 400

Who are the New Sons of Liberty?

Spanish minister who tried to delay reaching an

agreement.

B 500

Who is Manuel de Godoy?

Allow one branch to block the actions of another to

prevent supreme authority.

C 100

What are checks?

Allows each branch to have a role in the actions

of the other branches.

C 200

What are balances?

Declaring of a law or action to be

unconstitutional.

C 300

What is Judicial Review?

Must approve all Presidential

appointments.

C 400

What is the Senate?

Upheld the notion that federal law has authority

to override state law.

C 500

What is the supremacy clause of the Constitution?

The five basic rights the First Amendment

protects.

D 100

What are freedom of speech, religion, assembly, petition,

and press?

The right to a speedy and public trial.

D 200

What is 6th Amendment?

Powers reserved for the people.

D 300

What is 9th Amendment?

Powers reserved for the States.

D 400

What is the 10th Amendment?

D 500

These are the powers that the Bill of Rights gives to

the people.

What are delegated powers?

Action or Decision that later serves as an

example.

E 100

What is a precedent?

Idea that political authority belongs to

the people.

E 200

What is popular sovereignty?

Idea that the federal government can take

actions that the Constitution does not

forbid.

E 300

What is Loose Construction?

They raise money and give it to candidates who support certain

issues.

E 400

What are political action committees (PACs)?

Idea that federal and state governments

have exclusive powers over their

area.

E 500

What is dual sovereignty?

Articles did this to Congress.

F 100

What is made it a single branch with limited powers?

Gave most power here.

F 200

What is the states?

The sharing of power between a federal

government and state government.

F 300

What is federalism?

Because of the weakness of the Articles, this system was created to ensure that

no one branch could become too powerful.

F 400

What is checks and balances?

Showed Americans the weaknesses of the

Confederation government.

F 500

What is Shay’s Rebellion?

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Washington’s Presidency

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Washington warns of these problems in his Farewell

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Dangerous foreign alliances, national debt, and division caused by political parties

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