Amending the Constitution of the United States involves which of the following processes?

According to the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, one of the purposes is to ________ Justice.

According to the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, one of the purposes is to insure ________ Tranquility.

According to the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, one of the purposes is to provide for the common ________.

According to the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, one of the purposes is to promote the general ________.

According to the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, one of the purposes is to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our ________.

Article I of the U.S. Constitution is about the ________.

Article II of the U.S. Constitution is about the ________.

Article III of the U.S. Constitution is about the ________.

Article IV of the U.S. Constitution is about ________.

Article V of the U.S. Constitution is about the ________.

Article VI of the U.S. Constitution is about ________.

Article VII of the U.S. Constitution is about ________.

Which group defended the Constitution and argued that a strong central government was needed?

Who were the authors of the Federalist Papers?

Which group was concerned about the absence of a bill of rights protecting personal freedoms?

The Anti-Federalists argued that the proposed Constitution betrayed the ideas of the American Revolution.

The Federalists supported the principles of separation of powers, checks and balances, and ________.

Which document contains the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

How many out of 13 states needed to ratify the Constitution in order to make it the governing document?

Which state was the first to ratify the Constitution?

Some states opposed the Constitution because it did not provide for the protection of _______.

What was the Massachusetts Compromise of February 1788?

Eventually, how many states ratified the Constitution, allowing a new government to begin on March 4, 1789?

A government that has a division of power between different levels of government.

The government is not allowed to just do whatever it wants. There are laws, rules, and guidelines in place to keep any one person or group from becoming too powerful.

The act of dividing government powers between different groups of people.

Accountability measures put in place to ensure that no one group becomes too powerful.

The people hold the power in the government.

The idea that leaders are elected to make laws and lead the government for the benefit of everyone. 

How many amendments have been proposed by Congress?

How many amendments have been ratified by the States?

If any dangerous and unnecessary powers be given to the general legislature, let them be plainly demonstrated,. . . .But, sir, by this government, powers are not given to any particular set of men—they are in the hands of the people—delegated to their representatives chosen for short terms—to representatives responsible to the people, and whose situation is perfectly similar to their own: as long as this is the case we have no danger to apprehend…Those who wish to become federal representatives, must depend on their credit with that class of men who will be the most popular in their counties, who generally represent the people in the state governments: they can, therefore, never succeed in any measure contrary to the wishes of those on whom they depend. It is almost certain, therefore, that the deliberations of the members of the federal house of representatives, will be directed to the interests of the people of America. As to the other branch, the senators will be appointed by the legislatures, and though elected for six years, I do not conceive they will so soon forget the source from whence they derive their political existence.

There is no Declaration of Rights, and the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitution of the several States, the Declarations of Rights in the separate States are no security. Nor are the people secured even in the enjoyment of the benefit of the common law…

There is no declaration of any kind, for preserving the liberty of the press, or the trial by jury in civil causes; nor against the danger of standing armies in time of peace.

Which was not one of the 5 philosophers that influenced the American Government?