Bill of Rights
the 2nd Amendment
What is the right to bear arms?
What is September 17, 1787?
Agreement over how slaves would be counted to determine representation in the House of Representatives is called this
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
Number of branches of government structured under the Articles of Confederation
What is one?
What is the legislative branch?
Amendment that protects against search and seizures without a warrant
What is the 4th amendment?
number of delegates at the Convention
what is 55?
What is Federalist?
how representation/voting was distributed among states
what is one vote per state?
Subject of the 3rd article of the Constitution
What is the Judicial Branch?
What are the 5th and 6th amendments?
Author of the Virginia Plan
Who is James Madison?
the anti-federalists said this was missing from the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
state most attached to the Articles of Confederation and wouldn't attend a convention to change them
What is Rhode Island?
Article 5 subject
name the 5 freedoms in the first amendment
What are speech, petition, assembly, religion, and press?
William Patterson's plan to amend the Articles and structure a unicameral legislature with one vote per state
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The beginning paragraph of the Constitution is called this
What is the Preamble?
Year the Articles of Confederation were written
What is 1777?
Article that explains how the Constitution itself gets ratified
Having certain rights listed in the Constitution doesn't necessary deny you rights that aren't listed
What is the 9th amendment?
Main author of the Great Compromise
Who is Roger Sherman?
the Required 9 states ratified the Constitution in 1788, and all 13 ratified it in this year
Two negative consequences of the Articles of Confederation that prompted another convention of the delegates
Article that declares that the Constitution is the "law of the land"
What is Article 6?