Foundations of Government
This was the first national government framework for the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The deal that wanted to count only a portion of the slaves toward the population for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The number of articles in the Constitution?
What is 7?
Number of amendments in the bill of rights.
What is 10?
The armed uprising that showed the STRENGTH of the Constitution.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The document that replaced the Articles as the supreme law of the United States
What is the Constitution?
3/5 in percentage form.
What is 60%?
The longest article in the Constitution.
What is Article I?
Who are the anti-federalists?
The three branches of government is an example of this limit on the government.
What is the separation of powers?
The armed uprising that exposed the weaknesses of the Articles.
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
The plan that proposed representation based on state population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The article that covers that powers of the Judicial Branch.
What is Article III?
The rights of the groups the bill of rights was meant to protect.
The branches' ability to limit each other's power is caused by this.
What are checks and balances?
Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
The plan that proposed equal representation for all states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The introduction of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
What is the 5th amendment?
Sharing power between different levels of government like national and state is this example of a limit on power.
What is federalism?
Who are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay?
The Great Compromise created this to solve the representation debate in the Constitution.
What is a bicameral legislature?
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What is the House & the Senate?
The article that contains the "supremacy clause" indicating that the Constitution is the Supreme law of the land.
What is Article 6?
The meaning of the letters in the acronym R.A.P.P.S for 1st amendment protections?
What is freedom or Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, and Speech?
The purpose of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
What is to fix/revise/improve/edit the Articles of Confederation?