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a change or addition to the United States constitution

• patriotism

• Articles of Confederation

• amendment
• Bill of Rights

The first constitution of the original thirteen colonies but was flawed and later replaced because the central government, according to the Articles, was too weak to enforce national laws and therefore had little power. Congress had no power to collect taxes, create a draft, regulate trade, etc.

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Checks and Balances

• Declaration of Independence

The first ten amendments added to the U.S. Constitution that state the rights and freedoms of the U.S. citizens, such rights include freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, and the right to protest; soldiers cannot take over a home during war or peace without the homeowner’s permission; and the protection of Americans from unreasonable and unlawful search and seizure of property

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Checks and Balances

• Declaration of Independence

A small group of people within a government who give advice to the highest leader,

such as the president or prime minister,
(United States Executive branch, includes the President, Vice President,

and heads of 15 executive departments.)

• Congress

• Cabinet
• Electoral College

• league

The ability for the United States Government branches to monitor the other branches so that no one branch has more power over the others,  example: making and vetoing new laws.

• Checks and Balances

• Continental Congress

• Electoral College

• Reserved Powers

An agreement between two sides who have different opinions, in which each side gives up something it had wanted.

• compromise

• checks and balances

• democracy

• justice

The members of the law-making legislative branch, which meets at the Capitol in Washington D.C., and is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

• Congress

• Supreme Court

• Continental Congress

• Legislative Branch

During the period of the American Revolution, it was the body of delegates who spoke and acted collectively for the people of the colony-states that later became the United States of America, originally created to revise the Articles of Confederation.

• League of Nations
• European Parliament
• United Nations
• Continental Congress

The set of political rules by which a place or organization is governed, or 

the written document that records it, the Preamble is the document’s introduction.

• Declaration
• Bill of Rights
• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

The document that states the Thirteen Colonies 

declared themselves independent from Great Britain and become its own country.

• Preamble

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence
• Bill of Rights