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This article outlines the structure of the Executive Branch.
What is Article II?
The Great Compromise established the structure of this branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The Articles of Confederation gave most of the power in the U.S. to these "mini-countries."
What are the states?
He lives at the North Pole, employs elves, and flies around the world on Christmas Even delivering presents to boys and girls on his "nice" list.
Who is Santa Claus?
This amendment gives citizens freedom of religion, speech, and the press, and allows people to gather in groups and petition the government with a list of complaints.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This article outlines the structure of the Legislative Branch.
What is Article I?
The Great Compromise (a compromise which included parts of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan) created a Congress with this many chambers or houses.
What is two?
The Articles of Confederation united the country well enough and, in doing so, help the United States survive this conflict with Great Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This clause in Article I used vague language to "stretch" the lawmaking power of the Legislative Branch and the federal government as a whole.
What is the Elastic Clause?
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What is the "Necessary and Proper" Clause
This amendment is one of the longest and gives citizens protection from being tried for the same crime twice. It is one of the amendments which says citizens must be provided with due process of law and it gives them the right to say nothing when being arrested or when on trial.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This article outlines the structure of the Judicial Branch.
What is Article III?
This compromise, found in Article I and later overturned by the 14th Amendment, said that three out of every five enslaved people would count towards representation in the House of Representatives.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This ordinance called for a survey of the Northwest Territory (the land that is today parts of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota). It divided the land up into sections or plots people could buy.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
This clause in Article VI basically says that, "If the Constitution says, it goes!" In other words, if the Constitution says the states have to do something, they have to do it.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This amendment protects citizens from cruel and unusual forms of punishment as well as as from excessive fines.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This article includes the "Necessary and Proper" Clause, also called the Elastic Clause, which expanded the power of the Legislative Branch and the power of the federal government as a whole.
What is Article I?
North Carolina and New York said they would not ratify the Constitution without the addition of this to the Constitution?
What is a Bill of Rights?
The Articles of Confederation did not give the national government (A.K.A the federal government) the power to raise these two things.
What are an army and taxes?
This clause from Article I said that Congress could not act to stop the importation of slaves until the year 1808.
What is the Slave Trade Clause?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. It is the reason law enforcement must get a warrant from a judge before they can search someone's home.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This article contains the Full Faith and Credit Clause, the Extradition Clause, and the Fugitive Slave Clause.
What is Article IV?
These two political parties disagreed over the amount of power given to the central government by the Constitution. One group supported the Constitution while the other did not.
Who are the Federalist and the Anti-Federalists?
This ordinance said that territories that wanted to become states in the Northwest Territory had to create a Constitution, a Bill of Rights, outlaw slavery, and provide education to children.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This clause from Article IV says that states have to do their best to honor "the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State."
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
This amendment says citizens have rights which aren't listed in the Bill of Rights.
What is the 9th Amendment?