Vocabulary
These duties are put upon the citizens for the government to work. They include voting, and being informed of current events.
What are civic responsibilities?
These are the three branches of the United States government.
What are the judicial, legislative & executive branches?
This amendment protects freedom of religion, speech and the press; the right to assemble peacefully.
This person proposed that Congress be made up of two parts, or houses.
Who is Roger Sherman from Connecticut?
These groups of people disagreed over how much power the federal government should have.
What is amendment?
The president can limit the power of Congress by using this.
What is a veto?
This amendment protects people from having their property unfairly searched or taken.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This person proposed the New Jersey Plan.
Who is William Paterson of New Jersey?
This counted three of every five slaves to increase representation in the House.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
This branch of government passes laws.
What is the legislative?
This is Congress's check on the president.
What is reject the veto with a 2/3 vote?
This amendment protects the right to own and bear firearms.
What is the Second Amendment?
This person worked closely with George Washington during the Revolution and later became a member of Congress and a lawyer. He was also a Federalist.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This debated plan made it so representation was based on state population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
What is a delegate?
The president is able to do this in order to check the power of the courts (judicial branch).
What is choosing justices and judges to serve in the federal courts?
This amendment states that in criminal cases, citizens are guaranteed the right to a trial by jury and to have a lawyer.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This person was an Anti-Federalist; he "argued fiercely for independence and refused to attend the Constitutional Convention."
Who is Patrick Henry?
This was the name of the document where the first plan to form a new government took shape.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The judicial branch can check the power of both the president and the Congress by doing this.
This amendment asserts that all powers not states as belonging to the federal government belong to the states or to the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This person was a poor farmer who became a leader of farmers who were rebelling against the government due to their inability to pay their property taxes.
This document was ratified after it included the Bill of Rights.