Key Terms
A formal change to a legal document
What is an amendment?
Established the powers and duties of the judicial branch
What is Article 3?
The three parts of the Constitution
What are the Preamble, Articles and Amendments?
A national government run by the people
What is a democracy?
Believed in the division of power between the three branches
Who is Charles de Secondat?
Who are the Federalists?
Established the balance of state power and federal power.
What is Article 4?
This is what is meant as " promote the general welfare" in the Preamble.
What is the general well being of all citizens?
The first 10 amendments
What is the Bill of RIghts?
This was the first to limit government
What is the Magna Carta?
The first attempt by the newly formed nation to unite the states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Stated that the Constitution is the "Supreme Law of the Land.
What is the 6th Article?
The meaning of "liberty" int he Preamble.
What is freedom?
Those who were not in favor of the ratification of the original Constitution as drafted
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Believed in the idea of natural rights
Who is John Locke?
The system created to limit the power of each branch of government
What is the separation of power?
Established the powers and duties of the Legislative branch.
What is Article 1?
The meaning of "ourselves and out posterity" in the Preamble.
What is for our generation and for all generations to come?
The system created to be sure that each branch was doing it's job by the overseeing of the other two branches
What is the system of checks and balances?
Believed that without government there would be chaos.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
A system where the power is shared between the state and national governments
What is a federal system of government?
Established a process to ratify the Constitution
What is Article 7?
The Article that established the amendment process for making formal changes to the document.
What is the 5th Article?
A government that the people run through elected representatives
What is a republic form of government?
Stated that the King could not tax without the approval of Parliament.
What is the Petition of Rights?