The Structure of the Constitution

A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses.

• Confederation

• Bicameral

• Constitution

A law that set up a plan for surveying western lands.

• Ordinance of 1785

• Articles of Confederation

• State Governments

To vote approval of

• Filibuster

• House of Representatives

• Ratify

Meetings of State delegates in 1787 in leading to adoption of the Constitution

• Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A person that supported the Constitution

• Federalist

• Militarism

• Anti-Federalist

A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.

• Federalism

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Electoral College

A form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the states.

• Federalism

• Monarchy

• Communism

The opening of the Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• preamble

• Articles

The branch of government that inteprest laws.

• Exceutive

• Legislative

• Judicial

Any change that can be made to the Constitution

• Amendment

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Legislature