Vocabulary
This document outlines the plan of government for the United States.
What is the Constitution?
These branches are involved in the law making process.
What is legislative, judicial, and executive?
This amendment guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
According to the Founding Fathers this group holds the power in our government
Who are the people?
This is another name for the legislative branch.
What is the Congress?
A principle to allow the branches to exercise controls over the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
This group's point of view is directly seen in the Preamble of the U.S Constitution.
Who are the Founding Fathers?
This branch is composed (made up of) the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the legislative branch?
This is the purpose of government.
What is to protect the rights of the citizens?
This political principle allows each branch to have separate responsibilities so one branch does not become too powerful.
What is separation of powers?
This event directly led to the creation of the Articles of Confederation and eventually the U.S Constitution.
What is the American Revolution?
This branch has the power to appoint federal officials and Supreme Court justices.
What is the executive branch?
This amendment dictates how many terms a President can serve.
What is the 22nd amendment?
This political party favored a strong central government, dominated by a small group of wealthy, educated people
Who are the Federalists?
The meeting that was held in 1787 to discuss making changes to the nation's government.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This branch has the power to declare actions of the President unconstitutional.
In order to approve the Constitution, the AntiFederalists argued THIS needed to be added.
What is the Bill of Rights?