| A | B |
|---|
| legal restriction on voting | age |
| put mercantilism into practice | Navigation Acts |
| established direct democracy in New England | Mayflower Compact |
| restricted colonists' right to trial by jury | Coercive Acts |
| published Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| agreement about how to represent enslaved persons | Three Fifths Compromise |
| establishing schools | reserved powers |
| president and vice president are head of this branch | executive branch |
| system with a president, courts, and bicameral legislature | Virginia Plan |
| helped write the Federalist Papers | John Jay |
| divides the functions of government among three branches | separation of powers |
| Constitution is highest law of the land | Supremacy Clause |
| right to petition | First Amendment |
| right of government to take private property for public use | eminent domain |
| protect against self-incrimination | Fifth Amendment |
| guarantee African American right to vote | Fifteenth Amendment |
| guarantees women right to vote | Twenty-sixth Amendment |
| requires police to bring a prisoner to court to explain why they are holding him or her | writ of habeas corpus |
| House and Senate meet as one body | joint session |
| an example of a legislative power implied by the elastic clause | creating an air force |
| nonlegislative power that resides in the House | impeaching federal judges |
| ignoring a bill and letting it die | pigeonhole |
| indirect method of electing the president | electoral college |
| delay punishment of a prison | reprieve |
| nation's plan for dealing with other nations | foreign policy |
| a power given to the Constitution | appoint judges to federal courts |
| president fulfilling the role of economic leader | planning the federal budget |
