the Constitution
Define the US Constitution.
What is the supreme law of the United States. Empowered with the sovereign authority of the people by the framers and the consent of the legislatures of the states, it is the source of all government powers, and also provides important limitations on the government that protect the fundamental rights of United States citizens?
Necessary and proper clause.
What is to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof?
When was the Declaration of Independence approved and signed?
What is July 4, 1776
The Papers were published to persuade people to ratify this
What is the Constituution
Who was called the "Father of the constitution"
Who is James Madison?
The 3 main functions of the Constitution.
What is it creates a national government consisting of a legislative, an executive, and a judicial branch, with a system of checks and balances among the three branches, it divides power between the federal government and the states, it protects various individual liberties of American citizens.
Elastic clause
What is grants Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers?
This section of the Declaration of Independence describes the rights people should have.
What is the Bill of Rights
What branch did Madison think was the weakest in Fed. 51
What is he believes that the legislative will be stronger and the executive will always be weaker
Who presided over the Constitutional Convention?
Who is George Washington?
Importance of Separation of Powers.
What is because it provides a vital system of 'checks and balances and is to prevent the abuse of power.
Supremacy clause
What is establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions?
This section of the Declaration of Independence lists why the colonists were unhappy with the King.
What is the statement of greivances
Purpose of Federalist paper 10
What is defended the form of republican government proposed by the Constitution (factions)
Which Founding Father did not sign the Constitution?
Thomas Jefferson
Purpose of permanent protections of the Constitution
What is it prevents a majority from granting tyrannical powers to the government in a time of crises, prevents a majority from easily taking away the rights of minorities, or prevents those in office from holding on to power by increasing their terms in office?
Free exercise clause.
What is Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances?
These are the two men who asked Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration.
What is Samuel Adams and Ben Franklin
Fed. Paper 78
What is discusses the power of judicial review. It argues that the federal courts have the job of determining whether acts of Congress are constitutional and what must be done if government is faced with the things that are done on the contrary of the Constitution.
Who believed the Constitution should be rewritten in every generation?
Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution divides powers between state and federal government by...
What is concurrent powers that include the power to tax, spend, and borrow money. State governments operate their own judicial systems, charter corporations, provide public education, and regulate property rights?
Due process clause
What is guarantees “due process of law” before the government may deprive someone of “life, liberty, or property?
It took this many days for Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
What is 17
Brutus 1
What is Brutus argues that a free republic cannot exist in such a large territory as the United States. He states that a true free republic comes from the people, not representatives of the people.
Who argued against the Constitution?
George Mason