2 ways to amend the constitution's formal and informal?
Propose an amendment by ⅔ of congress or ⅔ of the state legislative branches to do it.
Ratify= ¾ of the state legislative branches of contention much approve
100
The government can only do what the people allow them to do.
Limited government
100
Written plan for government
Constitution
200
What was the first Constitution in the US?
Articles of Confederation
200
What plan have 3 branches of government and a 2 house legislative branch?
The Virginia Plan
200
What are the 6 purposes of our government?
1.Form a more perfect union
2.Establish Justice
3.Insure domestic Tranquility
4.Provide for the common “defence”
5.Promote the general Welfare
6.Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our 7.Posterity.
200
Limits the power the framers divided the government up into 3 branches.
Separation of Power
200
A legislature consisting of 2 parts, or houses.
Bicameral
300
What is the Ordinance or 1785?
A law that divides land into townships.
300
What plan have a 1 house legislative branch where each state gets 1 vote?
New Jersey Plan
300
The 3 main parts of the Constitution
Preamble, Articles and The Amendments
300
What are Popular sovereignty, Limited government and the rule of law, Separation of powers, Checks and balance and Federalism.
Major Principles of the Government
300
A group of individuals or state government
Confederation
400
Because of what rebellion did many Delegates want a stronger Federal Government?
Shay's
400
How did the delegates decide to count slaves in the population?
For every 5 slaves they counted as 3 people
400
What are the 7 articles
What are the 7 articles
1 Outlines the powers and the setup of the legislative branch.
2= Describes the power and the setup of the executive branch.
3= Describes the setup of the Judicial Branch and describes the cases it will hear.
4= explains the relation between the state and nation government.
5= How the constitution can be changed.
6= Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
7= How the constitution will be ratified.
400
What is the powers shared between the national government and the states.
Federalism
400
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
Electoral College
500
Needed all 13 states to agree to change the constitution is part of the?
Weakness of the Articles
500
What was the Great Compromise?
A 2 house legislative branch where each state got 2 members and the House of Representative was based on population.
500
There are 27 amendments and the first how many make up The Bill of Rights.
10
500
If the states goes against the constitution their actions will be removed by what?