Amendments
Constitutional Articles
Basic Principles of Government
The Articles of Confederation
Making the Constitution
100
The First 10 Amendments
What is The Bill of Rights
100
We The People...
What is The Preamble?
100
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
What are the three branches of government?
100
An alliance of states that agree to work together
What is a confederation?
100
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where did the Constitutional Convention meet?
200
The Right to Bare Arms
What is The Second Amendment?
200
Defines the Legislative Branch
What is Article One?
200
Each branch can restrain the other two
What is Checks and Balances?
200
No matter how large or small each state had only one of these in congress
What is a Vote?
200
Two Houses
What is bicameral?
300
Protection from unreasonable search and seizures
What is the Fourth Amendment?
300
Defines terms of federal judges
What is Article Three?
300
"We the people..."
What is Popular Sovereignty, or Limited Government?
300
The Articles could not raise this
What are taxes or revenue?
300
An agreement where each state has two Senators and the number of representatives would be based on population
What is the Great Compromise?
400
Defines Presidential Tenure
What is the 22nd Amendment?
400
Defines who is the Commander in Chief
What is Article Two?
400
A law can be declared Unconstitutional
What is Judicial Review?
400
Divide land into townships and sections
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
400
This counted each slave as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation
What is the three-fifths compromise?
500
The "Lame Duck" Amendment
What is the 20th Amendement?
500
Contains the "Supremacy Clause"
What is Article Six?
500
Power is divided between a central government and smaller governments
What is Federalism?
500
No Slavery Allowed from north of Ohio, west of Pennsylvania to the Mississippi
What is The Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
500
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
What are Federalists?
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