Bill Of Rights
These are the five freedoms of the 1st amendment.
RAPPS
Religion
Assembly
Press
Petition
Speech
Name 3 branches of the US Federal government
What is the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch?
This term describes someone who supported a strong central government and wanted the Constitution to be ratified.
What is a Federalist?
This first constitution of the United States created a weak central government that gave most power to the states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Who can veto a law?
the President
This is the 2nd amendment.
What is the right to bear arms? (own a gun)
What is popular sovereignty?
This principle means that the government gets its power from the people, who express their will through voting and elections.
This term describes someone who opposed the Constitution because they feared a strong central government and wanted a Bill of Rights added. They preferred the Articles of Confederation.
What is a Anti-Federalist?
This 1786-1787 uprising of Massachusetts farmers protesting high taxes and debt highlighted weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
In the United States who is expect to obey the law and report for jury duty?
Citizens
This amendment protects you against excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th amendment?
The court system makes up this branch of government
Judicial Branch
This agreement at the Constitutional Convention created a two-house Congress with one house based on population and the other with equal representation for all states.
What is the Great Compromise?
Under the Articles, the national government lacked this power, which made it difficult to pay debts or fund an army.
What is the power to tax?
Powers held by the Federal Government.
What are enumerated powers?
This amendment protects Americans from being forced to house soldiers in their homes during peacetime.
What is the 3rd amendment?
Which branch gets to interpret the laws made by the legislative branch?
What is the Judicial Branch?
Some delegates refused to sign the Constitution because it lacked this, which would guarantee individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights.
The weaknesses of the Articles eventually led to this 1787 meeting to create a new constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Powers held by both states and the federal government.
What are concurrent powers?
This amendment guarantees the right to a trial by jury in civil cases and addresses grievances like being denied the benefits of trial by jury, as listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What is the 7th amendment?
Checks and Balances means:
This agreement during the Constitutional Convention counted enslaved people as part of the population, but only partially, to determine representation in Congress.
What is the 3/5's compromise?
What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Problems like a weak central government, no power to tax, and difficulty enforcing laws were all issues under this first U.S. constitution.
Powers held by the states
What are reserved powers?