Unit 1 Civics Part A

A branch of government that is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate and is the lawmaking body of the United States.

• Executive branch
• Judicial Branch
• Legislative branch
• Congress Branch

The branch of government that enforces laws and is headed by the president.

• Executive branch
• Judicial Branch
• Legislative branch
• Congress Branch

The branch of government that interprets and applies the laws through a series of courts.

• Executive branch
• Congress Branch
• Legislative branch
• Judicial branch

This group felt that the Constitution gave too much power to the national government and took away power from the states.

• Federalists
• Republicans
• Anti-Federalists
• Democrats

A Constitutional Principle that separates powers between the state and federal governments.

• Checks and Balances
• Seperation of Powers
• Limited Government
• Federalism

The first ten amendments of the Constitution and was added in order to ratify the Constitution.

• Bill of Rights
• Voting Rights Amendments
• Civil War Amendments
• Presidential Amendments

A constitutional principle that created our three different branches of government.

• Separation of Powers
• Checks and Balances
• Federalism
• Republicanism

The Constitutional Principle that prevents any of the three branches of the U.S. government from getting too powerful by giving them checks, or restraints or control over other branches in efforts to balance the power.

• Separation of Powers
• Federalism
• Checks and Balances
• Republicanism

This idea limits the power of government and states that nobody is above the law, not even the president.

• Double Jeopardy

• Rule of Law

• Plead the Fifth

• Due Process

The notion that power lies within the people is called what? It's also one of the basic principles of the U.S. Constitution.

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balanes

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty