Miscellaneous
What is the purpose for amending the Constitution?
What is to ensure the Constitution adapts to changing times
Which principle of government gives the American people the right to elect their leadership every 4 years?
Popular Sovereignty
Why would slave states be in favor of counting slaves as part of their total population?
To have more representation in the legislative branch
What plan was where representatives were chosen solely on one vote per state
New Jersey Plan
The first amendment guarantees protection for?
Freedom of choice regarding religious membership
Anti-federalists believed in a strong?
State government
Baron De Montesquieu theory of what was used in the creation of the Constitution?
Separation of powers
What document outlawed slavery, gained rights to self-government and provided for public education
Northwest Ordinance
What plan has representatives who work together to pass laws?
Great Compromise
The 5th amendment includes protection from double jeopardy, no self-incrimination and ?
Due process of law
How did the Founding Fathers address the colonial grievances and protect the rights of American citizens
The problems are corrected in the Bill of Rights
The Framers embedded what into the Constitution to prevent any abuse of power from the other branches of government?
Checks and balances
Federalists believed in a what?
strong, central government
What plan has representatives chosen solely on state population?
Virginia Plan
Which amendment allows for an attorney for someone unable to defend themselves?
6th Amendment
The Northwest Ordinance was an act that provided rules for governing the Northwest Territory and paved the way for what?
Admission of new states to the Union
Separation of Powers
How did the Articles of Confederation ensure that state governments would have more power over the national government?
Congress needed the approval of all states to pass amendments
3 out of every 5 slaves count towards a state's population to help maintain a balance in representation
During the Revolutionary War era the British made efforts to confiscate as many weapons as they could without obtaining a writs of assistance would have been protected by which amendment?
4th amendment
George Mason was an Anti-federalist that believed in
protecting individual liberties
The 10th amendment reflects which principle of government?
Federalism
Congress has the power to pass taxes, the President has the power to make treaties, and the principle of checks and balances are a response to issues that arose in what?
Articles of Confederation
Name who is in the Legislative branch, Executive branch and the Judicial branch
Congress, president and supreme court
What does the 8th amendment protect
No cruel and unusual punishment