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Bill of Rights
The Constitution
100
A government in which citizens rule through their elected representatives.
What is a republic?
100
Prevents one branch of government from dominating the other two.
What is checks and balances?
100
This many states were needed to ratify the Constitution.
What is 9?
100
Protects the rights of people accused of crimes.
What is the 6th Amendment?
100
Maintains that states have the right to have armed militias.
What is the 2nd Amendment
200
Established a plan for surveying the land west of the Appalachians.
What is the Land Ordinance Act of 1785?
200
Group of electors chosen by the states to case ballots for the presidential candidates.
What is the electoral college?
200
Wrote the Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
200
guarantees that the government cannot take private property for its own use without fair payment.
What is the 5th Amendment?
200
Says that bails, fines, and punishments for crimes cannot be unfair or cruel.
What is the 8th Amendment?
300
Plan in which Congress provided for a procedure for dividing the land north of the Ohio River.
What is Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
300
Proposed a bicameral legislature with two houses based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
John Jay and James Madison were prominent members of this group.
What is the Federalists?
300
Establishes people's right to criticize the government.
What is the 1st Amendment?
300
Protects people from being forced to house soldiers during peacetime.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
400
Had the most power under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the states?
400
Proposed a single-house congress based on equal representation for each state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
State that fulfilled requirement for ratification of the Constitution.
What is New Hampshire?
400
Requires the police to provide a good reason to obtain a search warrant.
What is the 4th Amendment?
400
States that people's rights are not limited to those listed in the Constitution.
What is the 9th Amendment?
500
An accomplishment of the national government under the Articles of Confederation, with the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, was establishing legislation that handled this process.
What is a process for admitting new states to the Union?
500
Proposed two-house Congress, one based on population and one based on equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
The national government may make war with other countries, but the states cannot is an example of what type of system?
What is the system of federalism?
500
Says that government powers not mentioned in the Constitution belong to the states or the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?
500
Requires that most people accused of civil crimes be given a jury trial.
What is the 7th Amendment?