American Government

The "Father of the Constitution" is known as

• Benjamin Franklin

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

The writers of the Constitution believed that

• people should elect leaders

• leaders should be picked by the Senate.

Place a check by the 2 of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation from the list below

• Most of the power was given to the states.

• The Senate appointed the President.

• The federal government could not tax.

• The President had all of the governments power.

The legislative branch of government

• makes laws

• interprets laws

• enforces laws

The judicial branch of government

• makes laws

• interprets laws

• enforces laws

The executive branch of government

• makes laws

• interprets laws

• enforces laws

Congress consists of two parts, the ________________ and the ___________________________________.

(a)  

Who has MORE representatives?

• House of Representatives

• Senate

Answer explanation

Remember the number of representatives in the house depends on the state's population. In the Senate each state only gets 2 representatives.

The 3/5th Compromise was an agreement on how slaves were to be counted as part of the population in the southern states. Every _______ slaves would be counted as _________ free people. (hint: the answers are numbers.)

(a)  

The Constitution has three parts: preamble, articles, and the (a)   . (Hint: this part guaranteed the rights of individual citizens)