Unit 2 Test Part 2
Constitutional Underpinnings
Directions: Fill in the blank with the answer that best completes the sentence (remember this is a civics class). Highlight your answers. If you put multiple answers it will be marked incorrect. Make sure to be very specific with your answers. (5 pts each)

During the Constitutional Convention, the framers came up with the _______________________ which added parts of the ______________ plan and the ________________ plan to create our bicameral legislative branch.

During the Constitutional Convention the ______________________ allowed Northern and Southern States to agree to a plan that would count ____________________ this specific way for both taxes and population.

______________________ said that government should be split into 3 parts his reasons were to prevent the government from being ____________________.

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote ________________________ that formally stated our separation from England and formed the United States of America.

The first government of the United States was created by the _________________ which were seen to be ________________ because states had all of the power.

Drew Brees can play football, eat at Walk-Ons, have a wife because he has ___________________ just for being alive (be specific).

If Axel Rose believed that a strong central government was bad, and that the Constitution should not be passed, he would most likely be a part of the ____________________.

The founders knew the country would change. They left two ways to _________________ the Constitution. One way could be done through the ________________ branch. The other the states could call for a _________________________. Both ways required a _____________ vote by states to ratify.

The phrase “We the People” represents the idea of ___________________.

The government being divided between a central government and smaller local government is the principal of ______________________.

Powers given to the federal government are ____________________ but if they were not given to the federal government or forbidden from the state it is a _______________________.


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