Before the Constitutional Convention
Congress feared this.
What is a strong central government?
The father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
How the Constitution is organized.
What are articles?
Where the Preamble is located in the Constitution.
Where is the beginning?
The 3 branches of government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?
The reason for Shay's Rebellion.
What is post-war debt?
A federalist.
What is a person that approves of the constitution?
The amount of amendments in the Constitution.
What is 27?
The number of goals of the Preamble.
How many is 6?
The highest court.
What is the Supreme Court?
The first Constitution.
What are the articles of confederation?
The place and time of the constitutional convention.
Where is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1787?
The rights the 1st amendment protects.
What are the freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?
The main goal of the preamble.
What is forming a more perfect union?
The 3 Presidential Powers.
What is vetoing bills, commanding military, and making treaties?
The 3/5ths compromise.
What are slaves counting as 3/5ths of a person?
The agreement that decided how many representatives each state gets.
What is the great compromise?
What is Popular Sovereignty, Republicanism, Limited Government, Federalism, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, and Individual Rights?
The person who wrote the Preamble.
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
The 5 powers of Congress.
What is declaring war, collecting taxes, coining money, regulating trade, and creating laws?
When the Articles of Confederation were ratified.
When was February 2, 1781?
Where Jefferson was during the convention.
Where is Paris, France?
The last time an amendment was added to the Constitution.
When was May 7, 1992?
What the Preamble says.
We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The reason the Senate is considered the upper house.
Why are there less members and why do they serve longer terms?