Articles of Confederation and Constitutional Convention
What is the states had a lot of autonomy?
The legislative branch's job is to what?
What is make laws?
What are the jobs of the executive and judicial branches?
What is= executive= enforce and implement the law
Judicial= intepret the law
From Article IV of the Constitution- who has the power to admit new states into the U.S.?
What is Congress
What is freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press, and petition.
Our first form of government had many problems. List 3.
What is: no executive branch, no judicial branch, no president, Congress needed 9/13 states to agree to pass laws, to amend the Articles all 13/13 states had to agree, there was no standing army, Congress didn't have the power to tax.
Our Congress is bicameral (2 houses). List both houses of Congress.
What is: The House of Representatives and the Senate.
How is the president actually elected?
What is by the Electoral College
What is: states can elect people to represent their views in a variety of positions, both state and local.
What does the Second Amendment say?
What is the right to bear arms
Describe the purpose of the Constitutional Convention.
What is: to revise the Articles of Confederation, but what actually happened is they ended up replacing it.
What is: answers vary:)
How many maximum years can the U.S. president serve in office?
What is two terms, 10 years total, if he starts off as vice president then becomes president from there.
Article V outlines the amendment (change) process to the Constitution. What fraction of Congress needs to propose an amendment, and what fraction of states needs to ratify (pass) it?
What is 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states.
The 4th-8th Amendments are referred to collectively as the what?
What is the rights of the accused.
The Constitutional Convention had many debates that needed to be compromised on. Describe the Great Connecticut Compromise.
What is: it created a bicameral Congress with a House of Representatives based on population, and a Senate based on statehood equality (2 senators per state).
What is something that only the House of Representatives can do?
What is: start the impeachment process, originate money bills, pick the president if no one gets a majority in the Electoral College.
What does the Constitution say about the courts?
What is there shall be a Supreme Court, and Congress creates the lower courts.
How many amendments are there to the US Constitution currently?
What is 27
One part of the 5th Amendment is the right to due process from the national government. What does that mean?
The national government has to follow the laws and not treat you unfairly when you are accused of a crime.
The Constitutional Convention had many debates that needed to be compromised on. Describe the compromise on the presidency.
What is: there would be one president, and/or they would be chosen by popular vote and then the Electoral College.
What is something that only the Senate can do?
What is: finish the impeachment process, approve presidential appointments, ratify treaties.
What does the Supreme Court do?
What is: determine if things are constitutional or not (this is called judicial review, we will learn more about this in the next unit)
Article VI has the Supremacy Clause. What does this mean?
What is the national government is supreme (above) the states.
What is one part of the 6th Amendment?
What is: the right to an attorney and/or the right to a speedy and public trial?