Dates
The first state to approve the Constitution on December 7, 1787
What is Delaware ?
The definition of depression
What is a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases?
The Constitution contains a system of limiting power of other branches
What is Checks and Balances.
The three branches of government
What is legislative, executive, judicial
It's known as the "supreme law of the land."
What is The Constitution?
The delegates assembled to sign the Constitution they had created.
What is September 17, 1787?
The definition of the word legislative branch
What is lawmaking branch of government?
Article I of the Constitution declares Congress to be
What is legislative branch ?
The branch that can declare war
What is legislative branch
A special group casts votes for the president
What is Electoral College?
Between 1776 and 1786, 11 states—all except South Carolina and Georgia—outlawed or taxed the importation of
What is enslaved people?
The definition of the word amendment
What is a change, correction, or improvement added to a document
The Constitution created a federal system of government that divided powers between
What is the national, or federal, government and the states?
Each branch has the powers to limit another branch
What is the system of checks and balances?
Smaller states oppose the Virginia Plan
What is smaller states would have fewer representatives in congress?
Hamilton called for a convention, or meeting, in Philadelphia to discuss trade issues.
What is September 1786 ?
The definition of the word bicameral
What is having two separate lawmaking chambers?
The president and vice president are head of this branch
What is executive branch?
This branch decides whether a law is constitutional
What is the judicial branch ?
He argued for separate and balanced powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches
What is Montesquieu?
New York ratified the Constitution
What is July 1788?
The definition of the word manumission
What is the freeing of individual enslaved persons?
Sharing power between the federal and state governments
What is federalism?
Branch contains the House of Representatives and the Senate?
What is legislative branch?
A British philosopher. He rejected the idea that kings had a divine right to rule.
Who is John Locke?