Articles of Confederation
A loose agreement between the states.
The proposal to have representation based on population.
What was the Virginia Plan?
This term refers to the states agreeing to accept the constitution as the new law of the land.
What is ratify?
This keeps each branch of government from getting too much power.
What are Checks and Balances or Separation of Powers?
This Marvel hero has nothing to do with the Constitution, but in the world of comics he probably should have been elected to be President.
Who is Captain America?
This Ordinance provided for the dividing, and selling of the Northwest Territories.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1785?
The proposal to have representation equally divided among all of the states, i.e. two representatives per state.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
This is the part of Legislative branch that has equal representation from all of the states.
What is the Senate?
The Constitution provides for these three branches of government.
What are Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
You can't get a degree from this college, but you can get a President.
What is the Electoral College?
This Ordinance provided a path for statehood in the new territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
The agreement to create a bicameral system with a House of Representatives, and a Senate.
What was the Great Compromise?
This is the part of the Legislative branch that is based on the population of each state. They also control the 'Power of the Purse'.
This series of articles were written to support and campaign for ratification of the Constitution.
What were the Federalist Papers?
Translate this motto "E Pluribus Unum"
What is "Out of Many, One."
This Ordinance forbade slavery in the Northwest Territories.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This is also known as a representative government.
What is a Republic?
Rather than being a law that can change, the Constitution is powerful because it can't be easily changed due to the fact that it is this form of law.
What is Written Law?
This group opposed the ratification of the Constitution.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
The first paragraph of the Constitution is called this.
What is the Preamble?
Name 3 issues that proved to the leaders of our nation that instead of ammending the Articles of Confederation they needed to create a new Constitutional form of Government.
What was their inability to raise taxes, their inability to wage war, their inability to raise an army, Shays' Rebellion, issues with the Right of Deposit, etc.
The compromise between the northern and southern states regarding how to count slaves.
What was the Three Fifths Compromise?
This term describes the division of power between the states and the national government.
What is a Federal System?
The first ten amendments are also known as this.
What are the Bill of Rights?
What are the first three articles?