The Constitution is a detailed written plan for government.
What is the constitution?
100
Many delegates traveled long distances and arrived late. But the group that finally gathered was special.
What is The Delegates
100
It states the goals and purposes of the government.
What is The Preamble?
100
Popular Sovereignty
Limited Government
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Federalism
What is The Five Principles
100
This means they were divided into two parts, or houses. The members of each house or state legislature were chosen by different methods.
What is bicameral
200
The Bill of Rights makes freedom and legal protections
What is the bill of rights?
200
The Meeting in Philadelphia turned into the Constitutional
What is Constitutional
200
Is a minor change in the document
What is Amendments
200
The powers directly granted to the national government are called the enumerated powers.
What is Three Types of powers
200
This group would select a president and a vice president. It would be made up of electors, or delegates, named by each state legislature.
What is Electoral College
300
The Articles of Confederation set up a “league of friendship” among independent states.
What is Article of Confederation?
300
The Virginia Plan had a federal government much like ours. It had a president, courts, and a congress with two houses. State population would decide how many representatives were in each house.
What is The Virginia Plan
300
The supremacy clause states that the Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government
What is The Supremacy Clause
300
The Preamble consists of a single, powerful sentence. It begins and ends as follows
What is The Preamble
400
The congress was into debt so they made the Shay's Rebellion.
What is Shay's Rebellion
400
It was based on the Articles of Confederation, with some changes.
What is The New Jersey Plan
400
The writers of the Constitution knew that the world would change in ways they could not predict.
What is Interpreting the Constitution
400
The entire system of government in the United States rests on a single document.
What is The Constitution Today?
400
They make laws
What is legislative branch
500
is a group of individual state governments that unite for a common purpose
What is Confederation
500
In the Senate, each state would have two members. This pleased the smaller states. In the House, the number of seats for each state would reflect the state’s population. This pleased the larger states.
What is The Great Compromise
500
They explain what happened in all Seven Articles.
What is The Seven Articles
500
Further limits on government arise from our federal system. Under federalism, as you have learned, power is shared by the national government and the states.
What is Federalism?
500
Sovereignty means “the right to rule.” The word popular, in this case, means “the people or public.” Thus, popular sovereignty means “the people’s right to rule.”