The Convention
In May 1787, 55 delegates met in this city to consider amending the Articles of Confederation
What is Philadelphia
This plan proposed a government with three branches and a legislature where representation was based on a state's population
What is the Virginia Plan?
This branch, also known as Congress, is responsible for creating the country's laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
This is the power of the President to reject a law that has been passed by Congress.
What is a veto?
These are the first ten amendments to the Constitution, added immediately after it was written
What are the Bill of Rights?
He was the individual who took the most notes at the convention and eventually wrote most of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
This plan favored smaller states by proposing a single legislative house where each state would have only one vote
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Headed by the President, this branch is responsible for carrying out and enforcing laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
This system describes how the federal government and state governments share power.
What is Federalism?
This amendment protects your right to express ideas in public or to the press, even if they are unpopular
What is the first amendment?
This was the only one of the thirteen states that did not send delegates to the convention.
Rhode Island
This agreement created a two-house legislature: one with two representatives per state and one based on population.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
This branch is made up of the court system and is responsible for interpreting the law.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This clause ensures that everyone understands that national (federal) laws have authority over state laws
What is the Supremacy Clause?
According to the 4th Amendment, police usually need a warrant or this to search your belongings.
This term refers to a person who shapes a concept or plan, often used to describe the authors of the Constitution
What is a framer?
This controversial agreement decided that five enslaved people would count as three people for taxation and representation purposes.
What is the 3/5th's compromise?
This specific part of Congress has 100 members, with exactly two coming from each state.
What is the Senate?
Congress can do this to a Presidential veto if two-thirds of the members agree to pass the law anyway.
What is an override?
The 8th Amendment ensures that if you are found guilty, the judge cannot sentence you to this type of punishment.
What is cruel and unusual punishment?
More than half of the men at the convention belonged to this demographic group, which influenced the issues they prioritized
Who are slave-owners?
While the North and South disagreed on the slave trade, they eventually agreed that the importation of new slaves must end by this year.
What is 1808?
The number of representatives in this house of Congress is determined by the specific population of each state.
What is the House of Representatives?
These are powers not specifically listed in the Constitution but are derived from the "necessary and proper" clause.
This is the total number of amendments currently in the United States Constitution
What is 27?