The US Constitution
This document created a set of laws that every state had to follow.
What is the Constitution?
This principle means there is a set of rules that everyone, including leaders, must follow.
What is Rule of Law?
A government where people elect Representatives to make laws for them.
What is a Republic?
These are the rights guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and this.
What is the Pursuit of Happiness?
Freedom of speech and protection from double jeopardy are found in this document.
This was the major and primary job of the Constitution
What is to establish and define the U.S. government and laws?
This principle divides responsibilities into different branches of government.
What is Separation of Powers?
This type of government has all the people vote on everything themselves.
What is a Democracy?
One main reason America wanted to leave England was that they passed taxes and laws without doing this.
This Amendment makes it to where soldiers can't stay in your home without permission.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
The founders made it hard to pass these because they didn’t want to change the Constitution without good reasons.
What are Amendments?
These allow different parts of the government to block one another.
What are Checks and Balances?
The type of government that the United States has.
What is a Republic?
One goal of the Declaration was to make England see America as this.
What are equals?
The President can do this to forgive someone’s crimes as a check on the Judicial Branch.
What is pardon?
This was the reason that the Government was broken into 3 different branches.
What is "So that one person would not have all the power"?
This system means there is a larger government along with smaller governments in the same country.
What is Federalism?
This branch of government is in charge of making the country's laws.
What is the Legislative branch?
According to the Declaration, people are born with these, which cannot be taken away.
What are rights?
The founders put this into the Constitution to guarantee rights the government couldn’t take away.
The founders added the Bill of Rights to guarantee certain rights and to convince this group to support the Constitution.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
A right that affects everyone is considered this kind of right.
What is a group right?
This person is the head of the Executive branch.
Who is the President?
The Declaration said governments exist mainly to do this for people’s rights.
What is protect them?
This group insisted on the Bill of Rights because they were afraid of Government tyranny.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?