Constitution
The amount of amendments
What is 27 amendments?
3 reasons Antifederalists didn't want to ratify the Constitution
Why did they think that it would reduce the powers of the state, the central government might pass laws that were not good for all states, and the Constitution did not protect American rights?
Head of the Legislative branch
What is the speaker of the House of Representatives?
Head of the Executive branch
What is the president of the United States?
Head of Judicial Branch
What is the Supreme Court?
Why the preamble was written
How did it establish the goals of the Constitution? (Create justice, defend the nation, and protect people's rights)
Beliefs of federalists
How did federalists argue for a stronger national government?
What is this branch responsible for
What makes all laws, declares war, and regulates interstate?
What is this branch responsible for
What is enforcing the laws of the land?
Decides if laws follow this document
What is the Constitution?
The three branches of government
What is legislative, executive, and judicial?
Beliefs of antifederalists
What anti-Federalists defended a vision of America rooted in powerful states not powerful government?
The two parties this branch is composed of
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Description of the Cabinet
What is the cabinet members serve as advisors to the president?
This branch is responsible for appointing judges of the Supreme Court
What is the Executive branch?
The first ten amendments
What is the Bill of Rights?
What Antifederalists thought a strong government would do
What is limit the state's power?
This branch can veto laws made by the legislative branch
What is the executive branch?
Describe a designated survivor
What is someone who is taken to a safe place away from the group of their peers to ensure someone who contains knowledge can survive in case of emergencies?
The amount of justices
What is nine judges?
Provide 2 amendments
How does the First Amendment give the right to freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition, and how does the Second Amendment give citizens the right to bear arms?
What Federalists thought a strong central government would do
What is promote economic growth?
The number of people in House of Representatives and Senate
What are 30 members in the Senate and 60 members in the House of Representatives?
What is the President has the power to negotiate and sign treaties, which must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate?
This branch decides what
What is if a law breaks the rules of the Constitution?