The Making of the U.S. Constitution

What are the three branches of government?

• Congress, Presidents, Judges

• Executive, Legislative, Judicial

• Executive, Legislative, Senate

• Judicial, House of Representatives, Senate

What does the Legislative Branch of government do?

• Carry out the laws

• Approve the laws

• Make the laws

• Supervise the law

What does the Executive Branch of goernment do?

• Makes laws official

• Make laws

• Supervise laws

• Doesn't have anything to do with laws

Whats does the Judicial Branch of government do?

• Supervies laws,

• Make laws

• Carry out the laws.

• Explain the laws.

Supporters of the Constitution that were led by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. They firmly believed the national government should be strong. They didn't want the Bill of Rights because they felt citizens' rights were already well protected by the Constitution.

• Necessary and Proper Clause

• Expressed Powers

• Federalists

• Concurrent Powers

those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution because it gave more power to the federal government and less to the states, and because it did not ensure individual rights. Many wanted to keep the Articles of Confederation. They were instrumental in obtaining passage of the Bill of Rights as a prerequisite to ratification of the Constitution in several states.

• Anti-Federalists

• Senate

• Federalists

• Legislature

The Great Compromise settled which major issue presented to the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention?

• How to count slaves in representation in Congress

• Should the government have an executive branch

• Who should preside over the Convention

• How population should factor into representation in Congress

The 3/5th Compromise was the Constitutional Conventions solution to which of the following issues?

• How to count population representation per each state.

• How to count slaves towards state representation

• Whether slavery should continue to exist as an institution

• Whether the executive branch should have one President or more

Which of the following Constitutional Principle splits powers between the national and state governments?

• Republicanism

• Separate Branches

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

Which of the following was a well known Federalist who contributed majorly to the Federalist Papers?

• Alexander Hamilton

• Patrick Henry

• George Mason

• Thomas Jefferson