Amendments
The amount of amendments in the Constitution.
What is "27"?
Branches that make up the government.
What is "Judicial, Legislative, and Executive."
These men sat in a whites only restaurant and endured hours of discrimination in a town in North Carolina.
Who is "The Greensboro 4"?
Opposed of the adoption of the constitution.
Who is Anti Federalists?
The Articles of Confederation were replaced by this.
What is "The Bill of Rights"?
435 members with representation based on population.
What is "House of Representatives"?
Believed people deserve the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Believed that a strong central government would best protect natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is Federalists?
This amendment helped to speed up the women's suffrage movement.
Appoint cabinet members, Supreme Court justices and federal judges, veto legislation, negotiate treaties, grant pardons.
This person believed that people were selfish and wicked, and that without strong government control, people would become chaotic.
Who is "Thomas Hobbes"?
Anti-Federalists fought for these to be included.
What is The Bill of Rights?
The 5th amendment was amended in this year.
What is 1791.
Article II of the Constitution.
What is "Executive Branch"?
The person who came up with the idea of checks and balances.
Who is "Baron de Montesquieu"?
These 3 people wrote a series of 85 essays that appeared in New York newspapers that argued that the powers of the national government were distributed and balanced in a way that would sustain limited government.
Who is James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay?
This amendment forbids salary of congress members from taking effect until the next election.
What is "The 27th Amendment"?
Gives Congress the authority to make laws and do things which are necessary for Congress to carry out the expressed powers assigned by the Constitution.
What is "Implied Powers"?
The person who said, "I do not agree with a word you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."
Who is "Voltaire"?
Melancton Smith of New York voted for the constitution.
What is Anti-Federalist?