The Constitution
The only way to change the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
The number of amendments within the Bill of Rights.
What is ten?
The compromise that states that every 5 slaves would be counted as 3 people.
What is the three-fifths compromise?
The name given to the papers that were written to answer common questions for citizens about the new Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The first state to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
The type of government the delegates decided that our government should be.
What is a republic?
The number of amendments that have been created since the beginning of the Constitution.
What is 27?
The plan that was known as the "Great Compromise."
What is the Connecticut Plan or the Connecticut Compromise?
The man elected to be the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The last state to ratify the Constitution.
The two branches of government that were added in the Constitution.
What are the Executive and the Judicial Branch?
The type of system of government that was formed that divided the governments powers between the national government and the state government.
What is a federal system?
The plan that larger states supported because they would be represented by population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The name given to someone that does not support the Constitution.
What is an anti-federalist?
The ninth state to ratify the Constitution.
What is New Hampshire?
What needed to be added to the Constitution if George Mason, Edmund Randolph, and Elbridge Gerry were going to sign it.
What is a Bill of Rights?
The system put in place to ensure the three branches of government do not exercise too much power.
What is the system of checks and balances?
The amount of votes that each state would be allowed under the New Jersey Plan.
What is one?
The three authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who are James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton?
The first Vice President of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
Three of the major issues that states disagreed upon during the Constitutional Convention.
What are: some states would be more powerful because of their size, how powerful should the central government be, slavery?
The principle that ensures no branch of government has too much power.
What is the Principle of Separation of Powers?
The author of the Connecticut Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
The three reasons why the Constitution has lasted so long.
What is: Americans have made it work, the Constitution can be amended, the founding fathers recognized that all people have faults and that power should be limited to avoid corruption and abuse?
The body of delegates that officially elect the president of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?