Constitution #1
America's founding Document
What is the US Constitution?
Five Freedoms: Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, Petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This plan favored large states, and wanted representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution are called...
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment
Sets up & defines the government and protects the rights of Americans
What is the function of the Constitution?
Amendments in the Constitution
What is 27?
This plan favored small states and wanted representation based on equality amongst states.
What is the NJ Plan?
1787
What is the year the Constitution is ratified?
The three parts of the Constitution in order.
What are the Preamble, the Articles, and the Amendments?
There are 7
What are the articles of the Constitution?
Roger Sherman proposed this
What is the Great Compromise?
States needed to propose a change to the Constitution.
What is 3/4 of the states?
Each branch of government helps restrict the power of the other two branches
What are Checks and Balances
A change or an addition to the Constitution?
What is an Amendment?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are known as...
unalienable rights
Federalism
What is power between State and Federal Government?
Name three out of the five goals of the Preamble
What is establishing justice, insure domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty?
3/5th Compromise
What is only counted 3 out of 5 slaves towards population?
The chairperson at the Constitutional Convention?
Who was George Washington?
Wrote the Bill of Rights? Known as the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
Can make the laws
What is Legislative Branch?
Carries out the laws
What is Executive?
Can interpret laws
What is Judicial?
Supremacy clause making the Constitution the "Supreme Law of the Land"
What is Article 6
The name of the person who speaks for a group
What is a representative?
The power the President has to reject a bill passed by the legislative branch.
What is Veto?
Passed in 1920, this amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The founders met in Philadephia to rework the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?