Core Knowledge Making the Constitution Vocabulary

What is a set of rules that gives government power and explains how a country’s government works?

• debating

• constitution

• compromise

• amendment

What is the elected leader of a country?

• colonies

• president

• liberty

• document

What means to be discussing or arguing with people whose opinions are different from your own

• elected

• document

• debating

• compromise

What means freedom?

• president

• state

• document

• liberty

What does it mean to be chosen by voting?

• elected

• document

• colonies

• constitution

What are changes or additions to the Constitution?

• state

• document

• amendments

• elected

What means to give up something in order to reach an agreement?

• debating

• liberty

• elect

• compromise

What are written pages of information?

• colonie

• document

• amendment

• liberty

What are parts of a country that are controlled by the country’s government but that also have the power to make their own laws about some things?

• constitution

• colonies

• document

• state

What are places that are settled and controlled by people from another country?

• colonies

• state

• president

• compromise