From Confederation
George Washington served as this group's chairman.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The term describes those who opposed ratification of the Constitution.
Who are antifederalists?
Its members serve six-year terms.
What is the Senate?
The length of the President's term.
What is four years?
The fraction of states that must ratify a proposed Constitutional amendment for it to take effect.
What is three-fourths?
The essays published to encourage ratification of the Constitution.
What is The Federalist? Or What are the Federalist Papers?
What is democracy?
The entire body is up for election every two years.
What is the House of Representatives?
The President's role with the military.
What is commander in chief?
What the 25th Amendment provides for.
What is Presidential succession?
This set the pattern for how territories would become states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Describes how the different branches of government have different responsibilities.
What is the Separation of powers?
Where bills to that are introduced in Congress.
What is Committee?
They really choose the President.
Who are the Electors?
The right guaranteed by the 2nd amendment.
What is the right to keep and bear arms?
This dealt with how states would be represented in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
Ways that the branches of government limit the powers of each other.
What are checks and balances?
The fraction of the Senate that is elected every two years.
What is one-third.
The president's role regarding the operation of the Federal government.
What is overseeing the executive branch?
The 16th Amendment provides for this.
What is a Federal income tax?
Who is James Madison.
This dealt with how slaves would be counted for representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
When the President doesn't sign a bill but doesn't send it back to Congress, either.
What is a pocket veto?
The levels of the Federal court system.
What is District, Appeals, and Supreme?
The four issues that the 1st Amendment addresses.
What are freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to assemble peaceably and to tell the government what they believe are wrongs that should be addressed?