Constitution
The nicknames for delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention.
What is framers?
Where is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
What is the Executive Branch?
Define commerce.
What is an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries foreign commerce or between different parts of the same country domestic commerce; trade; business?
The beginning or introduction.
The number of amendments under the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
What is to replace the Articles of Confederation?
The names of the two parts of the Legislative Branch.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Define delegate.
Who is a person who represents, or acts for, others at a meeting such as a convention or a conference?
To change or revise something officially.
What is to amend (amendment)?
These articles cover the organization of our government.
What are Articles I, II, and III?
The addition that was promised to be added to the Constitution and why.
What is the Bill of Rights and to protect the rights of citizens?
Name the parts of the Judicial Branch and their locations.
What is the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC and US Federal Courts, spread around the nation?
Define the New Jersey Plan, explain it's purpose and the name of the person who developed the plan.
What is a plan by William Patterson that protects small states from being overpowered by large states by giving each state 1 vote in Congress?
The person who combined the New Jersey and Virginia plan to create the Great Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Articles of Confederation
3. Constitution
Two topics that were heavily debated and negotiated upon while writing the document.
What is 1) state's votes/representation and 2) slavery?
The branch that requires an individual to be a natural-born citizen, 35 years old and be a resident of the US for 14 years.
What is the executive branch?
What is the idea of "We the People", meaning that the power of the government belongs with the people?
To come to an agreement by giving in on some points.
What is a compromise?
What is it means that the Constitution is the highest power document in the United States and all who reside in the US must abide by the information in the document?
Explain the 3/5ths compromise and reasoning for adding it to the Constitution.
What is..... the 3/5ths compromise is a way to count enslaved people in the population for slave holding states but not as a full person for the purpose of not being able to overpower states that are non-slave holding?
The names and party affiliations (Democrat or Republican) of our current senators.
Who is Ruben Gallego (D) and Mark Kelly (D)?
Define proportional.
corresponding (matching/following the same trend) in size or amount to something else.
For example, the # of votes a state gets in the House of Representatives is proportional to their population.
Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, allows Congress to take actions the Framers did not specifically list.
What is the elastic clause?