T/F: The United States Constitution is one of the shortest constitutions in the world today.

Introduces the Constitution and explains what it is meant to do:

Changes/additions to the Constitution after it was ratified. There are 27 of them:

The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution are called:

What federal lawmaking body creates laws?

How many houses in Congress?

In this type of system, citizens elect people to represent their needs and vote on issues in Congress.

The legislature, or Congress, is divided into two parts:

To serve in the Senate, one must be:

How many Senators in US Congress?

How long is a Senator's term?

How many members in the House of Representatives?

The number of delegates that a state gets to send to the House of Representatives depends on:

To serve in the House of Representatives, one must be at least _______ years old.

Which of the following is NOT a new power that Congress received under the Constitution?

Overall, the powers of Congress ____________ under the Constitution compared to those powers it had under the Articles of Confederation.

What the name of the nation's first government?

This event exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and the powers that Congress did not have:

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had no power to...

Article I of the Constitution creates the ___________ branch, the one that makes laws.

Article II of the US Constitution creates the ____________ branch, which is the one that enforces the laws and also includes the Presidency.

The Constitution states that the President shall:

To be President, one must be at least ________ years old.

To be President, one must have been born in the US or one of its territories.

Article III of the US Constitution creates the _____________ branch.

The judicial branch includes which of the following?

We have three branches in our government because the Founding Fathers believed strongly in the concept of:

When one or more branches get in the way of what another branch is trying to do.

A benefit of the checks/balances system is that:

The original purpose in the delegates meeting at Philadelphia in 1787 was to:

More than 70 men had been chosen as delegates to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, but ______ actually attended.

Person sent to a meeting or conference to represent the interests/point of view of their State.

Which state was the only one to not send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention, fearing strong powerful federal government?

During the Constitutional Convention, the delegates met in _______________ at _____________________________.

Who was selected as President of the Constitutional Convention?

The _________________ proposed two houses of Congress based on population.

The ________________ Plan proposed one house of Congress, where every state would get one vote regardless of size.

The Great Compromise combined the Virginia and New Jersey Plan and resulted in:

The 3/5 Compromise determined that three-fifths of __________ would be counted towards population.

As soon as __________ states ratified the Constitution, it went into effect.

Group of people that supported the new Constitution

T/F: Fortunately, the Constitution outlawed slavery.

T/F: In general, the selection of senators, and the Electoral College, showed that the delegates had a lot of trust of the people.

T/F: The Bill of Rights protects freedom of speech, even if the speech is unpopular.

First president

T/F: The Constitution has proven to be flexible enough to be relevant even 230 years after it was ratified.

T/F: The Constitution allows laws to be made for subjects and things that did not exist in 1787.

Which of the following is NOT one of the Cabinet departments?

How many amendments have been added to the Constitution?