Constitution Vocabulary Quiz

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Constitution Vocabulary Challenge

Test your knowledge of key constitutional concepts and vocabulary in this engaging quiz! Our carefully crafted questions will help you explore essential terms that have shaped the foundation of our government.

Topics covered include:

Judicial review
Types of democracy
Important historical events like Shay's Rebellion
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists

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The power to declare congressional (and presidential) acts invalid because they violate the Constitution.

Federalism

Judicial Review

Confederation

Bill or Rights

A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.

Natural Rights

Republic

Judicial Review

Constitution

This used to bring a prisoner or other detainee (e.g. Institutionalized mental patient) before the court to determine if the person's imprisonment or detention is lawful.

Declaration of Independence

Substantive view of democracy

Writ of habeas corpus

New jersey Plan

A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

Republic

Equal Rights Amendment

Checks and Balances

Consent of the Governed

An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades;

Anti-Federalists

Shay's Rebellion

Substantive view of Democracy

Virginia Plan

A term used to denote the particular procedures, such as regular elections based on universal suffrage, that produce an electorally-legitimated government.

Substantive View of Democracy

Federalists

Anti-Federalists

Procedural View of Democracy

A form of democracy in which the outcome of elections is representative of the people; it functions in the interest of the governed

Substantive View of Democracy

Federalists

Procedural View of Democracy

Anti-Federalists

A person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority.

Substantive View of Democracy

Anti-Fedealists

Federalists

Procedural View of Democracy

A person who opposed the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.

Substantive View of Democracy

Anti-Federalists

Federalists

Procedural View of Democracy

Counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.

Writ of Habeas Corpus

Republic

Checks and Balances

Chex Mix

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