What is the location of the constitutional convention?
100
Legislature, Executive, and Judicial.
What is the 3 branches
100
A law that applies to everyone
What is the rule of law?
100
Jake
What is Toto?
200
To approve of something
What is ratifying something?
200
George Washington
What is the head of the constitutional convention?
200
Carry out laws
What is the executive branch?
200
the split of authority among the legislature, executive, and judicial branches.
What the separations of power?
200
professor Marvel
What is Bryan?
300
A group of individual state governments that unite for a common purpose
What is confederation?
300
A series of essays written to defend the Constitution.
What is the federalist papers?
300
interpret laws
What is the judicial branch?
300
The idea that power lies with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
300
Munchkin
What is Rachel?
400
New Hampshire in 1776.
What is the first state to set up a Constitution?
400
55 men, lawyers, merchants, college presidents, physicians, generals, governors and planters.
What are the people who headed the constitutional convention?
400
Makes laws
What is the Legislature branch?
400
1. Popular sovereignty
2.limited government and rule of law
3. separation of powers
4. checks and balances
5. federalism
What are the principles of limited government?
400
November 22
What is Ms. Spunts birthday?
500
passed laws that allowed them to study the land in present day Midwest. Divided the area into 36 sections to better survey the land.
What is Ordinance of 1785?
500
A meeting among state delegates revising the articles of confederation They were doing this because the current government was o weak, in conclusion they ended up writing a new constitution.
What is the constitutional convention?
500
Additions or changes to the constitution.
What is the 27 amendments?
500
- Enumerated Powers-powers granted directly to the national government by the constitution; another word for expressed powers
- Reserved Powers-powers the Constitution does not to give to the national government that are kept my the states
- Concurrent Powers-powers shared by the state and federal governments
- Supremacy Clause-the clause in the Article VI of the Constitution that makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict