Lesson 1
The Magna Carta inspired
What is the Bill of Rights?
A meeting of state delegates in held 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
A sentence and a list that states six purposes of the government.
What is the Preamble?
Popular sovereignty, limited government and the rule of law, separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism.
What are the five principles?
Bicameral
What is a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses?
The Ordinance of 1785
What set up a plan for surveying western lands?
This plan had a president, courts, a congress with two houses, and State population would decide how many representatives were in each house.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Articles in which the first three are state the branches of government and the powers each branch has.
What are the Seven Articles.
Powers granted directly to the national government by the Constitution.
What is enumerated powers?
Process
What is an action or a series of actions directed toward a result?
The Northwest Ordinance
What law set up a government for the Northwest Territory?
A plan that kept the Confederation’s one-house congress.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The Amendments
What has 27 laws and the first ten are called the Bill of Rights?
Powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states.
What is reserved powers?
Assume
What is the process to take on or accept a role or responsibility?
The first constitution of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A decision that Congress would have two houses, a Senate, and a House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise
⅔ of Congress or ⅔ of the states to introduce an Amendment and ¾ of the states to approve the amendment.
What is formal Amendments?
Powers shared by the state and federal governments.
What is concurrent powers?
Ensure
What is the process of making sure of; to guarantee?
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
An agreement in which delegates decided that every five enslaved persons would equal three free persons.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Can occur in how we interpret the Constitution which usually takes place in the Supreme Court.
What is informal Amendments?
The clause in Article VI of the Constitution that makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict
What is the supremacy clause?
Ratify
What is the process in which you vote approval of?