the principal that all people and the government are obliged to follow legitimately enacted and fairly enforced laws.
What is Rule of Law pg2
100
No Mandate to create a new constitution
What is The mandate of the delegates to the Philadelphia convention?
100
Deleware
What is the first state (colony) to sign the Constitution
100
Right to Bear Arms
What is Amendment number 2
100
All powers shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives
What is Article number I
200
A veteran of the American Revolution and some Massachusetts farmers banned together to protest the local government of its actions against farmers by taking their land, imprisonment because they could not pay their debts.
What is Shays Rebellion
200
Excess of British power and strength of national government
What is the two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that contributed to the need of a new constitution?
200
Rhode Island
What is the last state (colony) to sign the Constitution
200
Right to trial by jury
What is Amendment number 7
200
Every Bill (law petition) which shall HAVE passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes LAW, be presented to the President of the United States.
What is Article 1; Sec 7
300
A person who supports a strong national government
What is a Federalist
300
The final interpreter of the law and Marbury v Madison
What is judicial review and in what Supreme Court case did Chief Justice Marshall announce the power on behalf of the federal judiciary?
300
Philadelphia
What is the name of the city where the Constitution was signed.
300
Right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury
What is Amendment number 6
300
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice-President, chosen for the same term, be elected.
What is Article II; Sec. 1
400
A person who opposes the establishment of a strong centralized government
What is Anti-Federalist
400
In favor a strong national government and those who oppose a strong national government
What is Distinguish Federalists from anti-Federalists. State the basic philosophical differences between the two.
400
Ninth State
What is ratification of the Constitution
400
No state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; not deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
What is Amendment number 14; sec. 1
400
The President shall be the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the individual states, when called into the actual SERVICE of the United States (war).
What is Article II; Sec. 2
500
Latin Term "You have the body" Brought from imprisonment to court
What is Habeas Corpus
500
The framers did not want to empower Congress to amend the Constitution , After all, the Constitution is fundamental law intended to restrict the power of government in many instances.
What is: Why did the framers of the Constitution make it so difficult to amend the Constitution?
500
John Jay
What is the first chief of justice of the United States
500
No person shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; (convicted for the same crime) nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
What is Amendment number 5
500
The RATIFICATION of the Convention of 9 states, shall be sufficient for the establishment of the Constitution.