In The Beginning
This document declared the colonies independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This proposal favored large states and called for representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This Article discusses the electoral college.
What is Article II?
This is the number of amendments that make up the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
This Amendment gives you the right to bear arms
What is the Second Amendment
This was America's first governing framework before the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This proposal favored small states and called for equal representation of the states.
What is the New Jersey plan?
This Article of the Constitution establishes the Legislative Branch.
What is Article I?
This amendment includes protections against self-incrimination and double jeopardy.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
First State to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware: December 7, 1787
This 1786 uprising by indebted farmers highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This compromise created a House of Representatives based on population and a Senate with equal representation for each state.
What is the Great Compromise, or Connecticut Compromise?
This Article speaks to this concept establishing that the Constitution and federal laws made pursuant to it are the supreme law of the land.
What is Article VI
This amendment protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
According to Article III what type of behavior must a SCOTUS judge have?
What is good?
This religious dissenter advocated for liberty of conscience, challenged Puritan authority, was a Separatist Minister and later founded Providence in Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
Under this compromise, this many enslaved people were counted for purposes of representation and direct taxation.
What is three out of every five. ( Three-Fifths Compromise)
This Article explains the process for amending the Constitution.
What is Article V?
The First Amendment protects these 5 things.
What is speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?
This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment and excessive bail and fines.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This Puritan leader described the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a “city upon a hill,” believing the colony would serve as an example for others.
Who is John Winthrop?
This constitutional provision prevented Congress from prohibiting the international slave trade before 1808.
What is the Slave Trade Clause?
This Article addresses relations among the states, including privileges and immunities.
What is Article IV?
This amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
These people wanted to ratify the Constitution and did not want the Bill of Rights.
Who are the Federalist?