Lesson 1
One thing that all of the state governments had to make laws.
What is a legislature?
A meeting that was held to discuss the issues of the Articles of Confederation that involved many of our country's greatest leaders.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The opening section of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
The idea that the power lies with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The principal that a ruler or a government is not all-powerful; a government that can do only what the people allow it to do
What is limited government?
The document that the new state governments were based off of.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The leader of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
Seven parts that describe the way the government is set up.
What are the Articles?
The split of authority between the three branches.
What is separation of powers.
A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
What is Bicameral?
The name of the legislature in the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Confederation Congress?
Established a two house congress with representation by state population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Additions and changes to the Constitution.
What are the Amendments?
States that the Constitution is the "Supreme law of the land."
What is supremacy clause?
An action or a series of actions directed toward a result.
What is process?
The federal government was too weak and did not have the power to tax.
What are weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
One house congress where each state would have the same amount of votes.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The two ways to ratify an Amendment.
What are informal and formal amendments?
A system in which each branch is able to restrain the power of the others.
What is Checks and Balances?
To take on or accept a role or responsibility.
What is assume?
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Stated how slaves would be counted towards population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The two ways to interpret the Constitution.
What are loose and strict interpretations.
Powers that the state and federal government share.
What are Concurrent Powers?
To make sure of or to guarantee.
What is ensure?