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 is the amendment article
Article 5
1st National Government
What is the AOC?
How many Amendments are there?
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 principle of government does the 1st 3 words of the Preamble.
What is the consent of the governed?
Small and Large States agree on
What is the Great Compromise?
The 3 issues discussed at the Constitutional Convention?
What are representation, slavery/commerce, and power of the national gov?
Interstate relationships
What is article 4?
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?
Six 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
Due Process Amendments
What is the 5th & 14th amendment?
What is the 8th Amendment?
This amendment requires the police to have the warrant to search your person or property.
What is the 4th Amendment?
The founders met in Philadephia to rework the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?