Constitutional Convention
The document the founding fathers intended to edit at the Constitutional Convention.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
The introduction to the Constitution; it lays out the goals for the country.
What is the Preamble?
The branch of government that includes the President, Vice President, and the cabinet members.
What is the executive branch?
The executive branch's check on the legislative branch.
What is the power to veto laws?
The document that was created at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The man who proposed the Great Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
The form of government that the Constitution lays out, which is a government in which the people have the power to make political decisions.
What is democracy?
The branch of government that includes Congress (the Senate and the House of Representatives).
What is the legislative branch?
The executive branch's check on the judicial branch.
What is the ability to nominate Supreme Court justices?
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The man who led Shays' Rebellion.
Who is Daniel Shays?
What is three branches of government?
The branch of government that includes the Supreme Court.
What is the judicial branch?
The legislative branch's check on the judicial branch.
What is the ability to confirm or reject Supreme Court justice nominations?
The plan for government that favored states with small populations, saying that every state should have an equal number of votes.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The person in the executive branch whose job is also Commander-in-Chief.
Who is the president?
The word we use to say that the Constitution was accepted by the states.
What is ratified?
The branch of government in charge of making laws.
What is the legislative branch?
The judicial branch's check on the legislative branch.
What is the ability to declare laws unconstitutional.
This plan for government, proposed by James Madison, favored the states with large populations, saying that each state's representatives in Congress should be determined by the state's population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The two founding fathers who wrote The Federalist.
Who are Alexander Hamilton and John Jay?
A list of rights of individuals included at the end of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The branch in charge of declaring laws and actions unconstitutional.
What is the judicial branch?
The legislative branch's check on the executive branch.