The compromsie that suggested each state have equal representation
What is the New Jersey Plan?
100
Protection against cruel and unusual punishment
What is the 8th amendment?
200
A meeting held in 1787 to consider the changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution
What is the Constitutional Convention?
200
Author of the Virginia Plan
Who is James Madison?
200
This branch passes legislation
What is the legislative branch?
200
The compromise that suggested that each state have proportional representation based on population
What is the Virginia plan?
200
The right to freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition
What is the First amendment?
300
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizen's rights and freedoms
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
Author of the New Jersey Plan
Who is William Patterson?
300
The branch responsible for making sure the laws play by the rules
What is the judiciary branch?
300
Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
300
The right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
400
A system of government where power is shared among the central (or federal) government and the states.
What is federalism?
400
Out spoken Antifederalists from Virginia
Who is George Mason?
400
The division of basic government roles into branches
What is separation of powers?
400
The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two-house national legislature, with al states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house
What is the Great Compromise?
400
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
What is the Fourth Amendment?
500
A series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution.
What are the Federalists Papers?
500
The authors of the Federalists Papers
Who are John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton?
500
The two houses of the legislative branch?
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
500
The year the framers decided they would bring up the issue of slavery again.
What is 1808?
500
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.