Congress would have two houses. One house would have equal representation from each state. The other house would have representation based on each state's population. Both houses could propose bills, but only the house in which representation was based on population could propose tax bills.
What is the agreement the delegates at the Constitutional Convention reached under the Great Compromise?
100
This branch has the power to veto bills.
What is executive?
100
To approve
What is ratify?
100
The average number of people living in an area of a certain size, usually one square mile.
What is population density?
100
The amendment that says any powers not clearly given to the federal government, or denied to the states, belong to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
200
He wrote the Preamble to the Constitution.
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
200
This branch makes all national laws and has the power to impeach the President.
What is legislative?
200
The reason why many delegates insisted on adding ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is to protect the basic rights of the people?
200
This system prevents any one branch from controlling the government.
What is checks and balances?
200
This amendment protects the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
300
The question that the delegates at the Constitutional Convention tried to resolve.
What is, "How should representation in Congress be divided among the states?"
300
This branch decides whether laws follow the Constitution.
What is judicial?
300
The amendment that protects the right to free speech.
What is the first amendment?
300
The idea that government gets its power from its people.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This amendment prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers out of war time.
What is the Third Amendment?
400
The two governments that had to share the power to govern under the federal system.
What are the national and the state governments?
400
This branch has the power to approve the appointments of Supreme Court justices.
What is legislative?
400
freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right of people to assemble
What are the rights guaranteed to citizens under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?
400
A form of government in which people rule and are free to make choices about their lives and their government.
What is a democracy?
400
This amendment abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
500
The protest that took place 1787 in which leaders were made known of the weakness of the national government.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
500
The branch is responsible for enforcing laws.
What is executive branch?
500
The amendments that deal with due process of law.
What are the Fifth through the Eighth Amendments?
500
to fix the Articles of Confederation
What is the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
500
The number of amendments that have been ratified since the original signing of the Constitution.