Articles of Confederation Flashcards
Article 1
Legislative branch
The US Congress makes the laws. Has 2 parts called the house. The House of Representatives and the Senate
Article 2
Executive Branch
lays out the power of the executive branch
Article 3
Judicial Branch
lays out the powers of the Judicial Branch. Supreme Court decides court cases according to the US constitution.
Article 4
State powers - States have the power to make and carry out their own laws relating to the people and problems of the area.
Article 5
Amendments - Outlines the process for amending or changing the Constitution
Article 6
Supremacy Clause - Constitution and federal laws > state and local laws. All laws must agree with the Constitution.
Article 7
Ratification - outlines the process for the ratification of the Constitution
number of members: senate
2 per state = 100 total
number of members: House of Representatives
depends on population
How elected: Senate
elected by the people of each state
How elected: House of Representatives
elected by the people
Constituents represented: senate
entire state
Constituents represented: House of Representatives
individual districts
Qualifications: age, citizenship, and residence: Senate
30 years old, US citizen for 9 years, must live in state represented
Qualifications: age citizenship, and residence: House of Representatives
25 years old, US citizen for 7 years, must live in state represented
Length of term: Senate
6 years
Length of term: house of representatives
2 years
Title of presiding officer: senate
The vice president
title of presiding officer: house of representatives
The speaker
name of current presiding officer: House of Representatives
Was Kevin McCarthy, currently nobody
name of current presiding officer: senate
Kamala Harris
impeachment power: Senate
Acts as a court during impeachments
impeachment power: house of representatives
Can bring charges of impeachment against an officer
Articles of Confederation
A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War.
Shays Rebellion (1786)
Armed uprising of western Massachusetts debtors seeking lower taxes and an end to property foreclosures. Though quickly put down, the insurrection inspired fears of “mob rule” among leading Revolutionaries.
Constitutional Convention
The meeting of 55 state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution
Virginia Plan
Virginia delegate James Madison’s plan of government, in which states got a number of representatives in Congress based on their population
New Jersey Plan
A constitutional proposal that would have given each state one vote in a new congress
U.S. Congress
the group of people who make laws for the United States. It has elected representatives from all states and territories. It is divided into two groups, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Bi-cameral
Two house legislature
legislature
a group that makes laws
Census
the official count of a population
Three-Fifths Compromise
Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation
Preamble
Introduction to the Constitution
James Madison
Father of the Constitution
Capitol Building
Where congress meets
White House
where the president lives and works
