Constitution #1
America's founding document.
What is the US Constitution?
RAPPS
What is the 1st Amendment?
Freedoms of Religion, Assembly, Petition, Press, Speech
This plan favored large states with representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The first TEN amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The ARTICLE that defines the AMENDMENT PROCESS.
What is Article V (5)?
The Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
The number of Amendments in the US Constitution.
What is 27?
This plan favored small states with equal representation for each state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The two "houses" of U.S. Congress.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The year the US Constitution was ratified (approved).
What is 1788?
The first three words of the Constitution.
What is WE THE PEOPLE?
This document announced the American Colonial break up with Great Britain.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
Proposed two houses of Congress-one based on population determining representation and one based on equal representation for each state.
What is the Great Compromise?
The Compromise over slavery and representation at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This ARTICLE sets up the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH.
What is Article I (1)?
A change or an addition to the US Constitution.
What is an Amendment?
These are considered "inalienable rights."
What are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
The division and sharing of power between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
Establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty.
What is the PREAMBLE of the US Constitution?
The BRANCH that can DECLARE WAR.
What is the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH (CONGRESS)?
The chairperson at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
Who was George Washington?
This "Father of the Constitution" wrote the Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
This BRANCH of GOVERNMENT MAKES the LAWS.
What is the Legislative Branch?
(Article I)
The BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT that CARRIES OUT and ENFORCES THE LAWS.
What is the Executive Branch?
The BRANCH that INTERPRETS the LAWS.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Supremacy clause making the Constitution the "Supreme Law of the Land." (Article...?)
What is Article VI (6)?
The year the US Constitution was written.
What is 1787?
This protects you from "cruel or unusual punishment" if convicted of a crime.
What is Amendment VIII (8)?
This Amendment requires the police to have a warrant to search your person or property.
What is Amendment IV (4)?
The FOUNDING FRAMERS met in Philadephia in 1787 to rework the Articles of Confederation. This meeting became...
What is the Constitutional Convention?