Who gave you the power?
Who has the power to approve state budgets, initiate taxes, impeach the president, create laws, ratify treaties, declare war, regulate commerce, and propose amendments to the constitution?
What is the Legislative Branch
Article I, II, and III in the Constitution talk about what?
I - establishing the Legislative branch, II - establishing executive branch, III - establishing the judicial branch
How do the branches correlate with each other?
Legislatives create laws, Executive carries out those laws, Judicial enforces those laws
A plan that favored a powerful central government for the larger states
What is the Virginia Plan
Proposed the Great Compromise
What is Benjamin Franklin
Who has the power to veto/sign bills, enforce laws, negotiate treaties, nominate judges, appoint federal officials, and grant pardons?
What is the Executive Branch
Article IV in the Constitution
Justice and protection of the states.
Criminals who committed a crime in one state and flee to another, they will be trialed with the laws aligned with the state they first fled from.
States can’t secede from the nation.
After census, every 10 years, states redraw their district boundaries to accurately reflect their change in population. This system has been abused and used to manipulate the boundaries to favor one party or class.
What is Gerrymandering
A plan that favored the idea of smaller states having an equal balance as the larger states
What is the New Jersey Plan
Believed factions were dangerous
Who is James Madison
Who has the power to settle legal disputes, protect people's rights granted by the constitution, hear civil cases, and punish those who violate the law.
What is the Judicial Branch
Article V in the Constitution
How to propose Amendments to the Constitution and Congress can ratify it or not.
Needs to pass both the house and the senate. ⅔ to pass, 290 (H. of R.) and 67(senator).
House and Senate needed to pass an amendment.
Difference between everyone else's government and the Nation's government?
The nation had members elected by the people to represent the people.
Southern states wanted Congress to count all of their slaves so they had more seats in the house of representatives but Congress said no so they created a compromise. Each slave counts as ⅗ of a person to increase the south’s representative numbers. Every 5 slaves counts as 1 person.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
1) To form a more perfect union
2) Establish justice
3) Insure domestic tranquility
4) Provide for the common defense
5) Promote the general welfare
6) Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity
What is the six functions of The Preamble
How do the branches check and balance each other?
Legislatives create laws, Executive carries out those laws, Judicial enforces those laws
Article VI in the Constitution
The Constitution is the law of the land and every state judge is bound to abide by/follow it.
The amount of people needed to make a vote
(hint: think quota)
What is a Quorum?
Ben Franklin combined two ideas to establish representation in Congress equally for all states: 2 legislators, population determines the House of Representatives, and a Senate of 2 senators from each state
What is the Great Compromise
People who opposed to a strong central government and U.S the Constitution because they didn’t want states to lose power.
What is Anti-Federalists
Who runs each of the 3 branches?
Legislative - Congress
Executive - The President, Vice president, and cabinets
Judicial - Superior and inferior judges
Article VII in the Constitution
Ratifying the Constitution.
What did 3/5 of a slave mean?
Every 5 enslaved people counted as 1 person
By 1808 no slave will be allowed into the country, imported into the country.
What is the 1808 Compromise regarding slavery
People in the U.S who were in favor of a strong central government and the Constitution because they want the state and federal government to share power.
What is Federalists