The US Constitution

Written freedoms that a government promises to protect; the first 10 amendments to the Constitution

• Checks and Balances
• Bill of Rights
• Compromise
• Federal System

A principle of the US Constitution that establishes the division of power between the national government and the states.

• Federal System
• Commerce
• Checks and Balances
• Articles of Confederation

to change, add or alter

• amend
• compromise
• commerce
• currency

trade/business 

• commerce
• currency
• compromise
• amend

Each side gives up an agreement

• constitution
• compromise
• currency
• republic

Person who opposed the U.S. Constitution.

• Anti-Federalist
• Federalist
• Bill of Rights
• Confederation

The first American constitution, passed in 1777 which created a loose alliance of 13 independent states

• Bill of Rights
• Articles of Confederation
• Constitution
• Federalist

A principle of the United States Constitution that safeguards against the abuse of of power by giving each branch of government the powers to prevent the other branches from having too much power.

• Federal System
• Bill of Rights
• Checks and Balances
• Reservation of Powers

A government in which one person or a small group of people hold complete authority.

• Dictatorship
• Republic
• Commerce
• Federal System

money

• commerce
• currency
• republic
• compromise