Establishing the Constitution
This was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention.
What is to improve the Articles of Confederation?
This is needed to make and amendment to the Constitution official.
What is 3/4 of the states have to agree.
This amendment protects citizens rights to freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly.
What is the first amendment?
This is the term for a person born in another country who becomes a citizen of the U.S.
What is a naturalized citizen?
This state has the highest number of electoral voters.
What is California?
These were the differences in the Virginia and New Jersey Plans.
What is the Virginia Plan was based on population, and the New Jersey Plan was based on equality.
A Senator's term is this many years.
What is 6?
This amendment protects citizens from having to testify against themselves.
What is the fifth amendment?
This is a civic responsibility.
What is voting in elections?
To be in the House of Representatives, you have to have been a citizen for this many years.
What is 7?
The Great Compromise solved disputes over representation in legislature by doing this.
What is dividing Congress into two houses? The Senate was for the small states (equal representation). The House of Representatives was for the large states (representatives based on population).
The president checks on Congress by doing this.
What is vetoing legislation?
This amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the fourth amendment?
These are the reasons the framers of the Constitution created a system of checks and balances?
What is to create a system where powers were divided among separate branches. Each branch did get some control over the others so that no one branch would grow too powerful.
Once a bill passes both houses of Congress, it goes to here to be signed into law.
What is the President?
The 3/5 Compromise solved the debate over which issue. Also, explain how it works.
What is how to count slavery for purposes of taxation and representation? They agreed to count 3/5 of the slaves.
These are the ways the President and Congress work together.
What is the president can ask Congress to pass or reject a law, the president can veto a law, and Congress can override a veto with a 2/3 vote of both houses of Congress?
This government power is the one exception under the fifth amendment that allows the government to take private property.
What is eminent domain?
The U.S. government can do this to immigrants who break the law.
What is deport them?
This branch of government has the power to say whether a law is Constitutional or Unconstitutional.
This man was unanimously nominated to be the president of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
A federal system is where power is shared between the states and federal government.
Delegated powers are powers that the Constitution assigns to the national government.
Reserved powers are kept by the states.
Concurrent powers are shared by both state and national government.
The elastic clause is used to deal with unexpected issues.
Due process is this. Also, what are four protections provided under the Fifth Amendment?
What is fair treatment under law.
A grand jury must determine if there is enough evidence to indict someone.
You do not have to testify at your own trial.
Anyone found guilty of a crime can not be tried again.
You can not have property taken away without due process, except for eminent domain.
These are three civic duties required of Americans.
What are pay taxes, serve on juries, and obey the laws?
There are this many justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?