Road to Constitution
This document was America’s first plan of government after independence.
What are the Articles of Confederation.
This plan called for representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The Constitution is divided into these 3 parts.
What is preamble, articles, and amendments?
This branch makes the laws.
What is legislative branch?
This system prevents one branch from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances or separation of powers?
A __________ is something you must do as a citizen.
What is a duty?
One major weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that the national government could not do this.
What is collect taxes, raise army, gave too much power to states?
This plan wanted equal representation for each state in Congress.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Article I of the Constitution creates this branch of government.
What is legislative branch?
This branch enforces the laws.
What is executive branch?
This power allows the president to reject a bill passed by Congress.
What is a veto?
A ___________ is something you should do as a citizen.
What is a responsibility?
This rebellion showed that the national government was too weak to keep order.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This compromise created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This part of the Constitution outlines the purpose of government.
What is the preamble?
This branch interprets laws.
What is judicial branch?
This power allows the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
Serving on a jury is an example of this.
What is a duty?
Shays’ Rebellion was caused mainly by farmers upset about these issues.
What are high taxes and debt?
This compromise counted three out of five enslaved people as population for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The first ten amendments are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This body is part of the legislative branch and represents the states equally.
What is the senate?
Congress can check the president by doing this.
What is overriding a veto or impeachment?
Voting and staying informed are examples of this.
What is a responsibility?
The failure of the Articles of Confederation led directly to this event in 1787.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This compromise delayed banning the slave trade until 1808.
What is the Slave Trade Compromise?
How do the Articles of the Constitution help organize the federal government?
What are the legal rules that describes how the government is structured and how it operates.
This court is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
Which principle explains why the legislative, executive, and judicial branches each have different jobs?
What is separation of powers?
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees what?
What is equal protection of laws?