Vocabulary
The 1st "Constitution of the United States."
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The Right to Bear Arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
Supporters of a strong federal government.
Who are the Federalists?
A 1786 rebellion in Massachusetts started by this disgruntled farmer who opposed the US Governments increase in taxes.
Who is Daniel Shays?
This power allows the court to determine the constitutionality of laws.
What is Judicial Review?
A two body structure for the Legislative Branch
What is Bicameral?
Freedom of Speech, Religion, and Press.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This state did not attend the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
What is Rhode Island?
Southern states proposed that their slave populations should be included in their representation in Congress pushed for the passage of this solution.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Proposes that the Legislative Branch have one governing body.
What is Unicameral?
Presidential power to reject a congressional decision.
What is a veto?
Right to secure your property, do not have to consent to unlawful search and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
Supporters of a weaker federal government and stronger state government.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This prevents any of the three branches of the US Government from becoming to powerful.
What are Checks and Balances?
The People's Rule.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Necessary and proper power given to congress.
What is the Elastic Clause?
The right to a speedy and public trial.
What is the 6th Amendment?
The plan that combined the best components of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans.
What was the Great Compromise?
A law passed in 1787 to regulate the settlement of new territory, which eventually was divided into several states of the Midwest .
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The ability to propose a change to United States Constitution.
What is an amendment?
Representatives that are chosen convene in this group to elect the US President.
What is the Electoral College?
No excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the 8th Amendment?
All legislative Powers granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.
What is Article 1 Section 1?
These two states were the "holdouts" in the process of ratifying the United States Constitution.
What are North Carolina and Rhode Island?
He was the president of of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?