Prelude to the Constitutional Convention
Written by Thomas Jefferson, this document used Locke's Social Contract Theory to announce the colonies' separation from the King.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Philadelphia
Where was the Constitutional Convention held?
What part of the Constitution allows Congress to make laws that are necessary and proper to the running of the government?
What is the Elastic Clause?
This ex-general led the Constitutional Convenstion.
Impeachment, the veto, and judicial review.
What are three ways that the Executive Branch can be checked?
The causes of ___ included the government's failure to pay its veterans and being jailed for debt and failure to pay taxes.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The ___ attempted to guarantee small states power by having equal representation for each state in Congress.
What is The New Jersey Plan?
___ are those powers kept only for the states.
What are reserved powers?
Known as the Father of the Constitution, this man also helped to design the Virginia Plan.
Who was James Madison?
Its purpose is to resolve disputes about laws and their Constitutionality.
What is thew Judicial Branch?
George Mason drafted the __ which guaranteed Virginians the right for a speedy trial, the right to a trial by jury, and the extension of religious tolerance.
What is the The Virginia Declaration of Rights?
The ___ attempted to make sure that each state was represented in Congress by the size of its population.
What is The Virginia Plan?
The design for governing separates powers into national, state and local levels.
What is federalism?
These men argued against the Constitution because it ignored citizens' rights while making the federal government too strong.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
Declaring war, creating laws and punishing pirates.
What are three delegated powers of Congress?
Taxes, military, foreign trade.
What are three areas of weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation?
This contentious compromise attempted to limit the power of slave states by counting 60% of the enslaved population as part of the state's whole population.
The idea that dividing powers among branches of government helps stop one person or group from becoming too strong.
What is separation of powers?
Who was Daniel Shays?
This amendment protects us from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 4th amendment?
The ___ is a strength of the Article of Confederation that was included in the Constitution. It has been used 37 times.
What is "process of a territory becoming a state"?
The ___ created a bicameral Congress that used both the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan's ideas for representation.
What is The Great Compromise?
These powers exist for multiple levels of government.
What are concurrent powers?
This delegate to the Constitution proposed equal representation of states in Congress.
This amendment addressed the Quartering Act by forbidding the requirement of people housing soldiers in peacetime.
What is the 3rd amendment?