Victorious Vocab
This is any change to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
The big states wanted to be represented by this so that they could have more power in Congress.
What is by population?
This is the name of the convention where delegates met to discuss a new plan of government.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The Constitution created this many branches of government.
What is three?
The introduction of the Constitution is found at the beginning of the document and called this.
What is the Preamble?
This is what we call a member of the Supreme Court.
What is a Justice?
The small states wanted to be represented this way in Congress to give them more power.
What is two per state or equally?
This is what we call the group of men who helped to form our plan of government.
Who are the Founding Fathers or Framers?
This is the branch of government that is where federal laws are carried out:
What is the Executive Branch?
These are the "body" or main part of the Constitution:
What are the Articles?
These people are the supporters of the original Constitution (and the federal system).
Who are the Federalists?
This is the name of the compromise between the states that figured out how to send representatives to Congress:
What is the Great Compromise?
This man became the leader of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
This is the name of the city where the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is Philadelphia?
These are the famous words that begin the Constitution. (found in the Preamble)
What is, "We the People"?
This is the President's power to reject a law made by Congress.
What is veto?
The states were very divided over the issue of slavery, and how the slave population should be represented in Congress. This is the name of the compromise they came up with.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This is the name of the original plan of government that many Americans thought was problematic and wanted to replace.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the branch of government laws are created.
What is the Legislative Branch?
These changes come at the end of the Constitution, and focus on individual rights and freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
These are the people who opposed the original Constitution.
Who are Anti-Federalists?
As part of the Three-Fifths Compromise, this was allowed to continue until 1808.
What is slave trading?
This is the name of the "new" document that the Founding Fathers wrote. It has been our plan of government ever since!
What is the Constitution?
Congress is divided into these two groups or houses.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
In the Constitution, this Article describes the judicial branch.
What is Article 3 or the third article?