Parts of the Constitution
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is the preamble?
The meaning of popular sovereignty.
What is the people right to rule?
The principle that a ruler or a government is not all powerful; the government can do only what the people allow it to do.
What is limited government?
The event that caused the delegates to have a Constitutional Convention.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
A law that set up a plan for surveying western land; a method that is still used today.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
A change to the Constitution.
What is the amendments?
The amount of principles underlying the Constitution.
What is five principles?
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
The man who wrote and presented the Virginia Plan.
What is James Madison?
The place where the Constitutional Convention took place.
What is Independence Hall?
The article about how the Constitution is to be ratified.
What is article seven?
The meaning to rule of law.
What is the law applies to everyone, even those who govern.
The clause in Article 6 of the Constitution that makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict.
What is the supremacy clause?
The plan of government presented at the Constitutional Convention that resembled the Articles of Confederation.
What is the New Jersey plan?
The weakness in the Articles of Confederation that caused Shays's Rebellion.
What is the weakness to collect taxes in the federal government?
The amount of amendments today.
What is 27 amendments?
The word(s) that means that the power is separated between the federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
An agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
The compromise that five slaves would count as three people.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
The thing that the anti-federalists wanted in the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The name of the first ten amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The system put into place to make sure one branch becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
The word that means a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses.
What is bicameral?
The year that Congress had to wait till to ban the slave trade.
What is 1808?
The three people who wrote the Federalist Papers.
What is Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?