Politics of the United States Questions
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____ was a French Enlightenment thinker who said that the powers of government should be clearly defined and divided up.
The Constitution made the elected president ___ of the Army and Navy.
The ____, written in 1620, was the first document of self government in North America.
Supporters of the Constitution were called ________ and they wanted a strong national government.
Only white male adults who owned property could ___ or hold office.
The Constitution set up a ___ independent of the President and legislature.
In 1689, the ___ protected the rights of citizens and said that parliamentary ___ should be held regularly.
It made clear that English ___ themselves had to obey the law.
The colonists in ____ set up the House of Burgesses.
American leaders looked to examples from Greece and _____.
The delegates wanted to create a ___, a government in which citizens rule themselves through elected representatives.
__ of Connecticut presented a compromise. Each side gives up some of its demands. HIs plan called for a two house legislature.
____ said northerns had to return fleeing slaves back to their owners.
Northerners wanted to ban slavery but southerners said it would ruin their economy. Congress could not outlaw slavery for ____ years.
___ states would have to vote yes in order for the Constitution to become law.
The ____ was a compromise between the north and south. If a state had 5,000 enslaved people, 3,000 of them would be included in the state's population count.
"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..." is the opening line of the ____ .
Edmund Randolph, George Mason, and Elbridge Gerry refused to sign because they thought the national government would have too much ____.
The Virginia Plan wanted a strong central government and ___ branches of government.
The legislature would have two houses and the number of representatives would be based on ______ under the Virginia Plan. Large states favored this plan. They said states with more people should have more representatives.