a meeting leading to the adoption of a new Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
100
It is a group of people or state government.
What is Confederation?
100
The opening section to the Constitution.
What is the preamble?
100
Makes the federal laws prevail over state laws when their is fighting.
What is a supremacy clause?
200
It was an uprising of Massachusetts farmer who didn't want to loose their farms because of debt caused by the American Revolution.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
200
A federal government that has a president, courts, and a congress with two houses.
What is the Virginia plan?
200
To vote for approval.
What does ratify mean?
200
The three branches are legislative branch, executive branch, and the judicial branch.
What are the three different branches of government?
200
They are powers that are shared by the federal government and the state government.
What are concurrent powers?
300
Three weaknesses were that Congress had no power to enforce laws, they had no national court system, and no Articles could be changes without the all 13 states agreeing.
What are three weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
300
They are the Bill of Rights.
What are the first 10 amendments?
300
A detailed, written plan.
What is the Constitution?
300
It is a agreement that three enslaved people count as 5 people for voting.
What is the three-fifths Compromise?
300
Split authorities among the three branches.
What is the separation of powers?
400
It is a law that set up a plan to survey western lands.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
400
Articles are one of the several main parts of the Constitution.
What are articles?
400
an action or series of action that happen to get to the end of your result.
What is process?
400
A dual system of congressional representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
The 5 principles are limited government and rule of law, checks and balances, federalism, popular sovereignty, and separation of powers.
What are the 5 different principles?
500
A law for a city or county.
What is an ordinance?
500
Amendments are any changes that are made to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
500
It is a system in which every branch of government is allowed to check the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
500
A group of people that picks the president and vice president.