Constitutional Foundation
The name of the event that decided how America was going to be governed, where the document was written.
What is The Constitutional Convention?
The group who was a proponent for strong state and local governments.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
The 2nd Amendment.
What is, "the right to a well regulated militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms?"
The first ten amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The branch of government that was not included in the Articles of Confederation, but created in the Articles of the Constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The name of the 55 delegates who wrote the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Framers?
The group that believed that the Bill of Rights was necessary to explicitly lay out the rights of Americans.
What is the Anti-Federalist party?
The 10th Amendment.
The powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, are reserved to the States, or to the people.
The total number of amendments in the Constitution.
What is 27?
This house of the legislative branch approves Presidential nominations/appointments, and they serve 6 year terms.
What is the Senate?
The only state to not send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
What is Rhode Island?
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This amendment protects you from unlawful search and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
Known as the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
The year that the Constitution was ratified.
What is 1788? (New Hampshire was the 9th)
Known as the father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
This famous Anti-Federalist was also the third President of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The right to a jury in a civil case.
What is the 7th amendment?
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The bicameral houses of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The plan that was created during the Constitutional Convention and was modeled after both the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan.
What is the Connecticut plan or the Great Compromise?
85 essays written by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton.
What are the Federalist Papers?
A common phrase meaning to invoke the right of silence in order to prevent self-incrimination.
What is, "I plead the fifth?"
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
What is 435?