Ch. 7

The first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution, containing a list of individual rights and liberties, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. Added through the Amendment process.

• Freedom Laws

• Bill of Rights

Document that sets out the laws and principles of a government

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

Branch of government that carries out or enforces the laws

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

Interprets the laws

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

upper house of the U.S. Congress with representation being equal

• The Virginia Plan

• Senate

Makes laws

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

compromise between states with large/small populations - states representation in HOR based on population while representation in Senate would be equal

• Connecticut Plan

• The Great Compromise

To approve a document

• Ratify

• Approval

Added to the Constitution through the amendment process to protect citizens individual freedoms

• Bill of Rights

• Rights

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 where the founding fathers created a new constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitutional Convention