Vocab
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Constitution
A written plan for a government
100
Shays's rebeilion
Shays led about 1,200 protestors, including free African Americans, in an attack on a federal arsenal that held weapons.
100
The delegates
Who's original job was to revise the Articles of Confederation?
100
consists of a single, powerful sentence
what is a preamble
100
popular sovereignty limited government and the rule of law separation of powers checks and balances federalism
What are the 5 principles of government
200
Constitutional Convention
meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution
200
Bicameral
all states set up a similar form of government.Each state had a legislature to make laws. These legislatures were sometimes....
200
The Virginia plan
Who had a federal government much like ours. It had a president, courts, and a congress with two houses?
200
7 different meanings in the constitution showing how the government will work
7 articles ?? What were they
200
enumerated powers reserved powers concurrent powers
What are the three types of power?
300
makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict
What is a supremacy clause
300
a law that set up a plan for surveying western lands
what was the Ordinance of 1785
300
New Jersey Plan
Each state would have one vote. But Congress could set taxes and regulate, or control, trade.
300
AN amendment
making a change to the Constitution is known as what?
300
Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government “ shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”
What is a supremacy clause?
400
powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states
What is reserved powers
400
the northwest ordinance
What is the 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
400
3/5 compromise
slaves would count as three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress
400
There are 27 of them. The first 10 amendments make up the Bill of Rights.
What are the amendment
400
The Constitution limits the power of both the federal and state governments.
What is a limited government?
500
powers shared by the state and federal governments
What is concurrent powers
500
a list guaranteed the basic freedoms and legal protections
What is the bill of rights?
500
Americans held different views about the proposed Constitution
What is a federalist
500
Preamble,Articles, and amendments
What are the three main parts the Constitution has
500
a system in which each branch of government is able to check, or take away, the power of the others
What are checks and balances?
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