Constitutional Convention
The presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington
Definition: To be approved.
What is to ratify?
The beginning section of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
reserved powers
What are powers given to the states?
Division in within the federal government that keeps the branches apart
What is separation of powers?
A phrase that refers to a two house Congress
What is bicameral?
Supporters of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
This goal of the Preamble shows that a main concern during the writing of the Constitution was creating a united group of states.
What is "to form a more perfect union"?
Powers assigned to Congress.
What are delegated or enumerated powers?
Each branch of government has ways to limit the powers of the other two.
What are checks and balances?
Counting slaves as 3/5 of a person.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
People who feared the power that the Constitution gave the government and argued against it.
Who are the Anti-Federalist?
This goal pledges to protect our basic freedoms now and in the future.
What is to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity?
27 changes to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
Division of power between the states and national government.
What is federalism?
The Great Compromise.
What is the plan to have a 2 house legislative branch with one house based on representation and the other each state gets equal votes?
James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton were authors of these documents.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Name 3 goals of the Constitution.
What are to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, to insure domestic tranquility, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity?
Can appoint ambassadors to foreign countries, control the military, appoint justices to Supreme Court
Who is the president?
Powers that are shared by the federal and state governments.
What concurrent powers?
The group of people who elect the president.
What is the electoral college?
Rhode Island.
What is the final state to ratify the Constitution?
powers shared by both the national and state governments
What are concurrent powers?
This concept means that people have the rights to rule themselves.
What is popular Sovereignty?
The elastic clause.
What is the necessary and proper clause sometimes called?