10 of the proposed amendments intended to protect citizens' rights.
What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights?
100
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
What are the three branches of government?
100
An agreement that the American government would have two houses in congress: the Senate where each state has two Senators, and House of Representatives where each state has a number of representatives based in population.
What is the Great Compromise?
100
Each of the three branches of government can limit the powers of the others. This way, no one branch becomes too powerful. Each branch “checks” the power of the other branches to make sure that the power is balanced between them.
What is the system of checks and balances?
200
The people who opposed the constitution.
Who were Anti-federalists?
200
The conflict between the federalists and the antifederalists threatened the ratification of the constitution. People saw the Constitution as failing to protect the basic principles of human liberty so they made the first ten amendments.
Why did the congress add the Bill of Rights?
200
Legislative branch propose and passes laws.
Executive branch makes sure laws are carried out.
Judicial branch is responsible for interpreting laws, punishing criminals, settle disputes between states.
What is the duty of each branch of government?
200
The New Jersey Plan called for a unicameral legislature. States would be represented equally, so all the states had the same power. The Virginia Plan called for a bicameral legislature. Bigger states counted as more than the small states.
How did the New Jersey Plan and Virginia Plan differ?
200
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
What are the three branches of government that check each other?
300
June of 1788, the Constitution was close to ratification. Nine states had ratified it, only New Hampshire was needed.
When did the constitution have ratification from nine states?
300
James Madison
Who promised the bill of rights on the US Constitution?
300
Delegates at the Constitutional Convention also wanted to divide power within the federal government. They did not want these powers to be controlled by just one man or one group.
Why did delegates want three branches of government?
300
They wanted a strong national government with three branches
What did the Virginia Plan want?
300
September 1787.
When was the final draft of the constitution completed?
400
Hamilton, Madison, and Jay.
Who were the main authors of the Federalist Papers?
400
Rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a free press, free assembly, free association, and the right to bear arms
What is in the first ten Amendments to the Constitution?
400
The legislative branch is made up of the two houses of Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the legislative branch made up of?
400
The Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan.
What two plans were combined to create the Great Compromise?
400
No national court system to interpret the meaning of laws.
What is one weakness of the articles of confederation?
500
It gave too much power to the national government at the expense of the state governments.
What is one reason why the anti-federalists did not want to ratify the constitution?
500
The conflict between the federalists and the antifederalists threatened the ratification of the constitution. People saw the Constitution as failing to protect the basic principles of human liberty so they made the first ten amendments
Why did the congress add the Bill of Rights?
500
To make sure one branch doesn't get to powerful.
What is the purpose of the checks and balances?
500
Two plans were put forth during the Constitutional Convention
What creates the new branches of government?
500
May 1787 in Philadelphia's Independence Hall to improve the Articles of Confederation.