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These are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
What were the Civil War Amendments?
These are the first Ten Amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is why it is important for people to understand public issues.
What was so that people can make informed decisions when voting?
This prompted the call to rewrite the Articles of Confederation.
What is the economic downturn caused by the limitations on the central government?
This was the reason as to why the Great Compromise established a two-house legislature.
What was to fairly represent all states?
This group supported a strong central government.
Who were the Federalists?
This group supported a strong state government.
Who were the Antifederalists?
This is how the Constitution reflects the principle of popular sovereignty.
What is by allowing people to choose their representatives?
This is how the Federalists Papers generated support for ratifying the Constitution.
What is by explaining how the Constitution would protect states' rights?
This is what "We, the People of the United States.." represents.
What is popular sovereignty?
This document stated that the monarch would not raise taxes without discussing the matter with the Great Council.
What was the Magna Carta?
This tied taxes to population.
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This government has the responsibility of maintaining public schools.
Who is the local government?
This is the method used most often to start the process of amending the U.S. Constitution.
What is that an amendment is proposed by two-thirds of both the House and the Senate?
This group gained more political participation when amendments were to the Constitution.
Who were the African Americans?
This plan suggested that the population decided the amount of representatives in the legislative branch for a state.
What was the Virginia Plan?
This plan suggested that each state would have one representative in the legislative branch.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
These were all qualifications under the Articles of Confederation for a territory to become a state.
What was that the population reached 60,000, basic civil rights were guaranteed, sale of land funded schools, and slavery was forbidden?
This is how the Magna Carta influenced the writing of the U.S. Constitution.
What was that people have the right to trial by jury and to own private property?
This is why James Madison is considered to be the "Father of the Constitution".
What is that he wrote the Anti-Federalists Papers which focused on protecting the rights of states?
This document stated that parliamentary elections should be held regularly.
What was the English Bill of Rights?
This created the two house system for the Legislative Branch.
What was the Great Compromise?
This is the reason why it is important for people to serve on juries when they are called upon to do so.