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This sets the purpose of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
There are this many total amendments to the Constitution.
What is 27?
This amendment prohibited the sale of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
This "plan" was favored by bigger states because representation was determined by population.
What was the Virginia plan?
This is carving up voting districts to create a political advantage.
What is gerrymandering?
There are this many branches of government established by the Constitution.
What is 3?
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments are known as this.
What are the Civil War amendments?
This branch of government is established by Article I.
What is the Legislative branch?
This plan created by Roger Sherman proposed a bicameral legislature.
What was the Great Compromise?
This principle means that the branches of government can limit the powers of the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
This amendment repealed the prohibition of alcohol.
What is the 21st amendment?
Article VI established this.
What is the supremacy clause?
This was the first state to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
Anti-Federalists wanted this added to the Constitution to protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This person in Congress counts and secures the votes.
What is a party whip?
This is the term for treating citizens fairly when they are accused of a crime.
What is "due process"?
This amendment granted women's suffrage.
What is the 19th amendment?
These amendments focus on the Rights of the Accused.
What are the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th amendments?
This means to formally approve.
What is ratification?
Its primary job is to advise the President.
What is the cabinet?
This branch of government is established by article II.
What is the Executive Branch?
These are the basic organizational units of the Constitution.
What are "articles"?
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
These are the people that are represented by legislators.
Who are constituents?
This is a formal meeting to elect delegates.
What is a caucus?