The Articles
The acronym we use to remember the articles of the Constitution.
What is Let Everyone Just Sit and Silently Read?
The document defining the laws governing our country.
What is the Constitution?
This is what article 1 is mostly about.
What is Legislation?
This is the opening paragraph to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
This is the definition of a Bill.
What is a proposed law?
Settlers came to America for this reason.
This article defines how a bill becomes a law.
What is article 1?
This is the reason the reason the Articles of the Confederation were weak.
A Bill must start in either of these two places.
What is the House or Senate?
These are the paragraphs that make up the Constitution.
What are the articles?
The original Constitution was named the___________...
What is The Articles of Confederation?
Our congress is Bicameral, which means it is made up of these?
What are two parts? Senate and House of Representatives.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect ____________.
What is Union?
This is when the president does not approve of a bill.
The first three articles of the Constitution.
What are the Legislative
Executive and
Judicial ?
This is the difference between a Federalist and an Anti-Federalist.
What is a Federalist supports a strong central government while an Anti Federalist supports more power to the individual states?
Senators represent the ______________, while Representatives represent the ___________.
What are states and people?
These are the three branches of our government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?
For a bill to continue on to the president for approval, what majority vote must pass Congress?
What is 2/3s ?
This article defines how a Bill becomes a law.
What is article 1?
This is the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Constitution outlines the laws governing our nation, while the Declaration was our letter to England, declaring our independence.
Our Congress is bicameral for this main purpose.
What is to prevent one person or group from having too much power, like a King.
This happens when a bill passes the House, but is changed in the Senate. It then house back to the House, but the House rejects the Senate's changes.
What is a committee is formed to create a compromise version?