Articles of Confederation
The Articles were written this way because of the colonists history with the British government.
What is weak?
Article 1 discusses the ________________ branch.
What is Legislative?
This is the main job of the Executive branch.
What is enforce laws?
The Supreme Court has this many members.
What is nine?
This amendment gives citizens the freedom of religion.
What is the 1st Amendment?
The introduction to the Constitution is called ________________
What is Preamble?
A president can only serve for __ years total.
What is 8?
The Articles of Confederation had _______ branch(es) of government.
What is the number one?
This branch of congress has 435 members.
What is the House of Representatives?
The head of this branch of government is called the _________________.
What is the President?
The main duty of the judicial branch is this.
What is to interpret or evaluate laws?
This amendment requires officials have a search warrant.
What is the 4th Amendment?
People who were against ratifying the Constitution were called...
What are antifederalists?
This person is known as the Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
This was a meeting of delegates in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation, which produced the new U.S. Constitution.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
A member of congress is called a ______________ or __________________.
What is a senator or representative?
If the President does not agree with a law passed by congress, he has this power.
What is veto?
This is the leader of the Supreme Court?
What is the Chief Justice?
This amendment protects us from cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th amendment?
There are ____ amendments in the Constitution
What is 27?
This combined New Jersey and Virginia Plans to create Congress, where the Senate has equal representation and the House of Rep has proportional representation
What is the Great Compromise?
This riot that was unable to be stopped proved the weaknesses of Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The number of representatives for each state is based upon this.
What is population?
This branch can override Presidential veto with enough votes.
What is Legislative?
This part of Article 3 addresses _________, when someone tries to attack or wage war against the United States or if he or she tries to help enemies do so in some way.
What is treason?
Poor Johnny has been arrested and asks for a lawyer. His request is denied. This is a violation of the ______ amendment.
What is the 6th Amendment.
People vote to elect representatives, the representatives are responsible for representing the interests of all the people, not just the majority.
What is Republicanism?
These promoted principles including the division of government powers, legislative checks and balances, and establishment of an independent judicial branch
What are the Federalist Papers?
It established a system for setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the Union on an equal footing with the original 13 states
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The Great Compromise while creating The Constitution declared that there should be _______ branches and _______ houses in Congress.
What is 3 and 2?
This group is chosen by the President to run executive departments.
(hint:you have these in your home.)
What is the cabinet?
This person acts as the judge in impeachment trials. (hint: also the leader of the Supreme Court)
Who is the Chief Justice?
A neighbor is suing Mr. Man because a tree in Mr. Man's yard fell on their roof. The neighbors want Mr. Man to pay $850 to have their roof repaired. Mr. Man asks that a jury be present to hear this case. The judge says no, since the amount of the repairs is is so small. The ____ amendment is being violated.
What is the 7th Amendment?
This principle, _______________________, is the division between the 3 branches of government, while the principle, _________________, is between the levels (federal and state) of government.
What is Separation of Powers and Federalism?
In this form of government, U.S. citizens elect a President, and other representatives, who then govern them as the Constitution directs them to, and are held to the same laws as the citizens.
What is Constitutional Republic?