What is the Constitution?
This is the name of the plan or set of rules for how the United States government works.
What is the Constitution?
Long ago, the people who met to write the Constitution are called delegates or framers. Name one place where they met.
What is Philadelphia?
The Bill of Rights is a list of the first ten ______ added to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
True or False: The Constitution tells how leaders are chosen and what the government can do.
What is True?
Before the Constitution, the first plan for government was called the Articles of ______.
What is Confederation?
True or False: The Bill of Rights protects things like freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
What is True?
Name one place in the Constitution where rules about leaders, laws, or courts are written. (What is a branch or What are the three branches?
executive, legislative, judicial
Why did leaders decide to write a new Constitution instead of keeping the Articles of Confederation? Give one simple reason.
What is the government was too weak / could not collect taxes or could not solve problems between states?
Name one right from the Bill of Rights that you might use every day.
What is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, or protection to practice your beliefs?
Explain in one sentence what a "rule" in the Constitution does for the country.
What is it helps people know how leaders should act and how laws are made?
How does the Constitution protect people from leaders having too much power?
What is by splitting power into branches or checks and balances?
One amendment in the Bill of Rights says people cannot be forced to let soldiers live in their homes in peacetime. Which right is this (briefly)?
What is protection from quartering soldiers / 3rd Amendment
Describe how the Constitution helps keep power fair between the national government and the states.
What is it divides powers or shares powers between national and state governments?
Give one short example of how citizens can help make the government work under the Constitution.
What is voting, following laws, or serving on a jury?
Explain in one sentence why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.
What is to protect people's basic rights and freedoms from government power?