Constitution
When was the Constitution Ratified?
June 21, 1788
What is Belling the Cat? 🐈
"To bell the cat" means to take on a dangerous task for the good of others"
OR
It is easy to make an impossible plan, but hard to do the actual work.
This branch includes the President, the President's cabinet, the Vice President, and other executive departments. This branch ensures the laws are carried out and enforced.
The Executive Branch
The first colonial legislature, formed in 1619, set governors salary and imposed taxes
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
What was the rats name in Ratatouille?
Who is Remy? 🐀🧑🍳
What are Articles I, II, and III about?
This author, who believed that absolute authority was the only way to bring true peace to humanity, also wrote The Leviathan.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This branch includes both houses of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate
The Legislative branch
Why did the British tax the colonies?
What is because they needed to pay off taxes?
Name one reason the Articles of Confederation didn't work out.
-States held too much power, no central federal government
-too hard to change
-no centralized trade or currency
Article IV: What is the "Full Faith andCredit Clause"?
Requires each state to uphold and respect the legal and judicial decisions of other states.
Ex: Drivers License
The only good government is one run completely by the people; direct democracy.
Who was Rousseau?
This branch of government includes nine justices. They all work together to solve disputes and review laws as needed.
What is the Judicial branch?
This act gave the British East India company total control of the tea sales in the colony
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
42
These articles explain the process to amending the Constitution, as well as how federal law is established and should be upheld.
What are Articles V and VI of the Constitution?
People are born with natural rights, but some of them must be given up to the government to protect those rights; representative democracy.
Who is John Locke?
Security, defense, justice, public goods, uphold the social contract, etc.
The colonists dressed up as these people at the Boston Tea Party.
Who are Native Americans? (Bonus points if you said the Mohawk Indians)
A war veteran never paid, led an armed protest against the MA government December 1786.
What is Shay's rebellion?
This was a compromise between two plans (Virginia and New Jersey) that established our bicameral legislation: House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is The Great Compromise?
Concentrated power leads to tyranny- government power must be checked and balanced; government with separated checked powers.
Who was Montesquieu?
Explain the Tragedy of the Commons
Pond analogy :)
When was the Revolutionary War?
April 19th, 1775 - September 3, 1783
Weighing in at 180 lbs., coming in at a whopping 6'2, this man was the FIRST president of the USA, didn't have a political party, and willingly resigned from office.
GEORGE WASHINGTON 🇺🇸🦅