Amendments
This amendment protects us from illegal search and seizure.
What is the 4th amendment?
This principle of government makes sure that no one branch can become too powerful.
What is Checks and Balances?
This compromise said that slaves would count as 3/5 of a free person.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
I am known as the Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
The three branches of government are...
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
The first 10 amendments are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights
This prinicple says that power comes from the people through elections.
What is Republicanism?
This term is called two houses
What is Bicameral?
I said we needed a strong, central government and I fixed the nation's troubled finances...
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The job of congress is to...
What is make laws for our nation.
People have the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Each branch has its own separate and specific duties and responsibilities
What is separation of powers?
This is the way the Constitution be changed or added to.
What are amendments?
I am an Anti-Federalist and also the third President of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The head court of the Judicial branch is the...
What is the Supreme Court?
The 2nd Amendment give you this right.
What is to own a gun
This principle says the state and federal government share power.
What is Federalism?
This is when the New Jersey plan and the Virginia plan were merged into the Constitution
What is the Great Compromise?
He was the leader of the Constitutional Convention and the first president...
Who is George Washington?
These people make up the executive branch
Who are the president and cabinet members
This Amendment is also the definition of Federalism
What is the 10th Amendment?
What is popular sovereignty?
The Constitutional Convention took place to write a document to replace which existing document
What is The Articles of Confederation?
I believed in Natural Rights such as Life, Liberty, and Property.
Who is John Locke?
These two houses make up the Legislative Branch
What are the Senate & House of Representatives? (congress)