Constitution
Name 1 branch of the US Federal government
Legislative, Executive and Judicial
Plan put forth by Roger Sherman of Connecticut that used parts of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans, forming our current Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses.
What is bicameral?
In what year was the Constitution adopted with the Bill of Rights?
What is 1791?
The term for "rule by the people."
What is popular sovereignty?
This branch of the national government interprets the laws?
What is judicial?
Plan put forth by William Paterson calling for a unicameral Congress that favored small states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are called what?
What is the Bill of Rights?
The highest ranking member of the judicial branch's title is this.
Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Founding father from Virginia who strongly opposed the ratification of the Constitution because it did not have a declaration of rights.
Who is George Mason?
The most recent judge appointed to the Supreme Court.
Who is Amy Coney Barrett?
A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central, or national, government and state governments .
What is federalism?
This founding father was born in 1735 in Quincy, Massachusetts. He was Minister to England during the Constitutional Convention.
Who is John Adams?
A collection of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the name "Publius" to defend the Constitution in detail.
What are the Federalist Papers?