Miscellaneous
The U.S. Government was unhappy with this first plan of government, written after the Revolutionary War
What are the Articles of Confederation?
When each side of a disagreement gives up some demands to meet somewhere in the middle
What is a compromise?
The number of branches in the US Government
What is 3?
The name for a proposal of a law. (Hint "I'm just a ____")
What is a Bill
The number of Constitutional amendments that make up the Bill of Rights
What is 10?
The problem with the Articles of Confederation is that it made the government this.
What is too weak?
It addressed the issue of how many votes each state would have in Congress
What is the Great Compromise?
It includes the President, and its job is to carry out laws
What is the Executive Branch?
The number of houses a Bill must pass in Congress in order to become a law
What is two houses
The five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?
What you should always get if you are questioned by the police
What is a LAWYER?
The two states that gave their names to plans: one to have one vote per state, another to have vote based off population
What is New Jersey and Virginia?
It includes Congress (House of Representatives and the Senate), and its job is to create, or write, laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
What is it called if the President refuses to sign and approve a bill
What is a Veto?
What the police must get before searching your property, according to the Fourth Amendment
A political cartoon made in 2010 about the Constitution is an example of this
What is a secondary source?
The Great Compromise was to have this many houses in Congress
What are two?
It includes the Supreme Court, and its job is to interpret laws
What is the Judicial Branch?
What is 2/3?
What is trial by jury?
The person who wrote the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison?
Each slave counted as this much of a free person, under a compromise between states with lots of slaves and states with few slaves
What is the "3/5ths Compromise"?
The name of the system that does not give any branch of government too much power in the government
What is "Checks and Balances"?
Whose job it is to make sure, once it is approved, a law it obeyed
What is the Executive Branch?
The reason why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution?
What is people's fear that the U.S. Government was too strong and could take away all of their rights