Constitution Overview

Which compromise is made up of ideas from the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan?

• The Great Compromise
• The three-fifths compromise
• The constitutional compromise
• The big compromise

What is the name of the first Constitution?

• Articles of Confederation
• Articles of Incorporation
• The Federalist Papers
• The Great Constitution 

Which group of people wanted the Constitution to include a Bill of Rights?

• Federalists
• Anti-federalists
• Democrats
• Northerners

Shay's Rebellion helped prove what point?

• The federal government needed changing
• The states powers were too weak
• The Articles of Confederation were powerful
• George Washington was a great leader.

James Madison was a federalist who wanted a federal constitution. 

• True
• False

Which of the following is NOT a branch of the government?

• Legislative
• Judicial
• Executive
• Constitutional

Which one of the following is not a guaranteed freedom found in the First Amendment?

• Right to own a gun
• Right to freedom of Speech
• Right to  petition the government
• Right to assemble peacefully

______ is the belief that the government gets its power from the people.

• Rule of Law
• Popular Sovereignity
• Checks and balances
• Federalism

The first ten Amendment to the Constitution are called the  _______.

• Bill of Rights
• Preamble
• Articles
• Naturalization

Which branch executes the laws?

• Executive
• Judicial
• Appellate
• Legislative