Lecture #1 and #2
Congress was missing this essential power to earn money during the Articles of Confederation era.
What is the power to tax?
This house of congress is based on Proportional representation?
What is the House of Representatives?
These 10 amendments were added to the Constitution to secure liberties for all Americans.
What is the Bill of Rights (BOR)?
Proposed laws
What is a bill?
An agreement made that 3 out of 5 enslaved persons would be counted toward the population total of a state.
What is the 3/5s compromise?
The city where the Constitution Convention was held.
What is Philadelphia?
This person was the author of the constitution and the Virginia Plan!
Who is James Madison?
These were the two groups pitted against each other when it came to ratifying the U.S. Constitution.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
The meeting held from May to September 1787 at which the Constitution was written. Also called the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
one choice for each group
What is Equal Representation?
The leader of the rebellion that led to a call for a new constitution.
Who is Daniel Shay?
This law said that escaped enslaved persons must be arrested and brought back to where they came from.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?
These governments are allowed to regulate trade, establish public schools, and regulate marriage and divorce practices.
What are state governments?
A person who represents other people at a meeting
What is a delegate?
The delegates to the Philadelphia Convention. They are the group of men who composed the United States Constitution.
Who are the Framers?
This the number of states that had to agree to any changes in the Constitution?
What is 13?
This plan called for one house of congress and had three unequal branches of government.
What is the New Jersey plan?
This state was the first to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
you cannot be charged with breaking the law if what you did was legal at the time you did it.
What is ex post facto?
to confirm and approve
What is Ratify?
This act passed by congress, outlawed slavery in certain territories, provided public education, and guaranteed the freedom of religion to people in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and more territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
These are taxes put on products coming from other countries in hopes that they make domestic goods cheaper.
What are protective tariffs?
Powers flows up from this to the government?
What is the people?
you must be charged with a crime to be incarcerated
What is writ of Habeas Corpus?
an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial.
What is a Bill of Attainder?