Chapter 3 Lesson 1
The first colony that became a state.
What is New Hampshire?
A meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution
What is Constitutional Convention?
The final authority for interpreting the Constitution
What is the Supreme Court?
Basic beliefs by which people live their lives.
What are Principles?
A detailed, written plan for government
What is a Constitution?
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
Offered the New Jersey Plan
Who was William Paterson?
Assumed, or accepted, the powers of the president as authorized by the Constitution.
Who was Vice President John Tyler?
The five principles.
What are Popular Sovereignty, Limited Government, The Rule of Law, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Federalism?
The first constitution of the United States
What is a Articles of Confederation?
A law that set up a plan for surveying western lands; this method is still used today.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
It had a president, courts, and a congress with two houses. State population would decide how many representatives were in each house.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Gives Congress the power to “make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper” to carry out its duties.
What is the The Constitution?
Voters also choose the president and vice president.
What is Electoral College?
Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation
What is a Great Compromise?
1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory and served as a model for other new territories and as a plan for admitting new states to the Union
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This group would select a president and a vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
It allows Congress to use powers not directly listed in the Constitution.
What is the necessary and proper clause?
This means that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern
What is the Rule of Law?
The branch of government that interprets laws
What is the Judicial Branch?
A leader in an uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution
Who was Daniel Shays?
The main leaders of the Federalists
Who were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
Became an important part of our political system.
What is Political Parties?
States that the Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government shall be the supreme Law of the Land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The opening section of the Constitution
What is the Preamble?