Ratification Process
For the Constitution to be approved it had to be ratified by
What is "Nine States"?
Three-fourths of the states must ratify it.
What is "amending the constitution"?
Reserve Powers are the powers of.
What are "The State Governments"?
President serves terms of.
What is "Four Years"?
The first state to ratify the constitution.
What is "Delaware"?
The second phase of the Ratification Process.
What is "State Conventions"?
Under the the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
What is "limit the powers of the federal government"?
Enumerated Powers are the powers of.
What is "The Federal Government"?
The president is a part of the.
What is the "Executive Branch"?
The last state to ratify the Constitution.
What is "Rhode Island"?
The Constitutional Convention settled on the process of ratifying the Constitution.
What is "The Articles of Confederation had taken years to ratify"?
Under the first amendment a person has.
What is one of the following freedoms, including religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition"?
Powers of both Federal Government.
What are "Concurrent Powers"?
The Electoral College
What is "Electors vote for the president in a manner according to state law"?
The Federalist Papers.
What is "a series of newspaper articles written to educate people about the Constitution and get them to vote in favor of it."
The Ratification Process started at the
What is "The Constitutional Convention"?
Four of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights specifically protect whom.
What are "people accused of a crime"?
“We the People” reflects the idea.
What is "Popular Sovereignty"?
An amendment must pass in Congress by
What is a "two-thirds majority vote"?
Patrick Henry worried about the wording of the preamble to the Constitution.
What is "He thought it took power from the states" or "He worried the government would overreach in forming “a more perfect union.”
The Ratification Process
What is "the Constitution Convention then State Convention then approval by at least 9 of the states"?
First 10 amendments make up.
What is "The Bill of Rights"?
Checks and Balances are
What is "a system of government in which the national government shares power with other levels of government, such as the states"?
A bill that the president does not sign.
What is "after ten days becomes a law"?
John Hancock and James Madison convinced Anti-Federalists to vote for ratification of the Constitution.
What is "They promised to add a bill of rights protecting individual freedoms after ratification."