Anything Goes
Constitution Convention
People
Compromises
Government
100
Location of the Constitutional Convention.
What is Philadelphia?
100
Meeting held to improve the Articles of Confederation
What is the Constitutional Convention?
100
"Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?
100
Unicameral legislature.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
100
Interpretation of the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
200
Year of the Constitutional convention.
What is 1787?
200
Sharing of power between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
200
President of the Constitutional Convention 1787.
Who is George Washington?
200
Proportional representation.
What is Representatives are based on a state's population, The Virginia Plan?
200
"9"
What is the number of states needed to ratify the Constitution?
300
Word used when a change is made to the Constitution.
What is amend?
300
Allows the Executive to cancel laws passed by Congress.
What is veto?
300
Proposed the New Jersey Plan.
Who is William Patterson?
300
Gave more power to the state governments.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
"Checks and Balances"
What is a System preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful?
400
Government where most of the power was held by the states.
What is The Articles of Confederation?
400
Idea that the political power rests in the hands of the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Proposed a bicameral legislature and proportional representation.
Who is Edmund Randolph?
400
Bicameral legislature, representatives based on state population in lower house and representatives equal from each state in upper house.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
A division of government powers among the executive, legislative and judicial branches.
What is the Separation of Powers?
500
Legislative Branch is known as....
What is Congress?
500
A group that did not support the Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalist?
500
Roger Sherman?
What is he proposed the Great Compromise?
500
Counting persons for the purpose of taxation and representation.
What is The Three-Fifths Compromise
500
Supported the Constitution as an excellent plan for government.
Who are the Federalists?
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