Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation took effect in this year.
What is 1781?
The US Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation on this year.
What is 1789?
This was the amount of States needed for a majority
What is 9 States?
Each State had this amount of votes
What is 1 vote?
For a majority this percentage is needed
What is 66% or 2/3?
The Articles of Confederation gave all the power to this
What are the States?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. This is known as...
What is the preamble?
This was the amount of States needed for a complete majority
What is 13 States?
These two branches of government didn't exist under the Articles of Confederation
What are the executive and judicial branches?
There are this many amendments in the current Constitution
What are 27 amendments?
This was difficult among States since their was no common currency
What is trade?
There are this many amendments in the original Bill of Rights
What are 12 amendments?
This system gives States with high population densities more representation
What is the electoral college?
This man was the first to write a draft of the Articles of Confederation
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is the president's power to reject a bill that's been passed through Congress
What is a veto?
Under the Articles of Confederation the government was unable to obtain this from the people
What is tax money?
This State held out signing the Constitution for 2 years
What is Maryland?
This was formed during the Constitution to give the people a voice
What is Congress?
This man's ideas contributed the most to the finished version of the Articles of Confederation
Who is John Dickinson?
This is the president's power to approve a bill without it needing to be passed through Congress
What is an executive order?
The Articles of Confederation were ratified on this date
What is March 1st, 1781?
In four days, delegates condensed 23 articles into only this many articles in the Constitution
What is 7 articles?
The US learned to not give too much power to centralized government from this Country
What is Great Britain?
The Confederation Government lacked these powers to enforce foreign policies among the States
What are domestic and international powers?
The president isn't allowed too much power through this system
What are checks and balances?