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Debate and Compromise
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2. Name the one way in which the Constitution changes?
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4. -Name the other way in which the Constitution changes?
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6. -How much of Congress is required to propose a change?
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7. -2/3
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8. -How many of the states must approve such a change?
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9. -3/4
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10. -Which statement in Article I of the Constitution allows Congress to stretch its enumerated powers to do almost anything in the best interests of the citizens?
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11. -Necessary and Proper
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12. -What is the alternative term for this clause that stretches the government’s power?
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13. -Elastic Clause
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14. -These powers that are not specifically written in the Constitution but are interpreted to exist?
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15. -Implied Powers
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16. -This is the idea that the Constitution should be defined by the exact wording used.
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17. -Strict Interpretation
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18. -Which term describes the idea that the Constitution should be defined by using a broader definition of the words used.
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19. -Loose Interpretation
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20. -Who has the final say on the meaning of the Constitution?
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21. -Supreme Court
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22. -Where was the Constitutional Convention?
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23. -Philadelphia
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24. -Name the government proposed by James Madison at the Convention and it called for a three branch government with a legislature based on population.
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25. -Virginia Plan
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26. -This is the plan presented by William Patterson that called for a legislature based on state equality and a group executive power.
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27. -New Jersey Plan
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28. -Name the agreement made at the Convention of 1787 that created a two house legislature with one house based on population and the other based on state equality.
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29. -Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise
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30. -Name the compromise that said slaves would count as 3/5 a person for the census to determine the population of each state.
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31. -3/5 Compromise
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32. -The Slave Trade Compromise said that this type of trade would never be taxed?
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33. -exports
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34. -Name the political group who supported the passage of the new Constitution and its stronger government.
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35. -Federalists
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36. -What political group opposed the new Constitution and thought it lacked a specific list of people’s rights.
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37. -Anti-Federalists
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38. -These were newspaper articles written in support of the new Constitution?
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39. -Federalist Papers
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40. -This was the set of Amendments that were proposed at the request of Anti-Federalists to guarantee certain basic rights to the people.
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41. -Bill of Rights
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42. -This is the concept that the government is not allowed to do certain things, and many of these restrictions are listed in the Constitution or the Amendments?
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43. -limited government
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44. Name the concept that all three branches of government are designed so that they have the ability to stop other branches from becoming abusive?
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45. -checks and balances
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46. -What idea says that the powers of government should be divided so that government will be less likely to abuse the rights of its citizens?
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47. -separation of powers
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48. -This term means that people have the right to rule themselves through the democratic process of voting?
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49. -popular sovereignty
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50. -What term describes the system of having multiple governments on the national, state, and local levels?
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51. -federalism
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