Constitution Test Flashcards
Article 2
Executive branch
Article 1
Legislative branch
Article 3
Judicial branch
Article 4
Relations among states
Article 5
Amending the constitution
Article 6
Role of national government
Article 7
Ratification
Amendment 1
Religious and political freedom
Amendment 2
Right to bear arms
Amendment 3
Quartering of soldiers
Amendment 4
Search and seizure
Amendment 5
Criminal process; due process
Amendment 6
Right to a jury trial
Amendment 7
Civil trails
Amendment 8
Punishment for crimes
Amendment 9
Other rights of the people
Amendment 10
Powers reserved to the states
Powers delegates to national government
Declare war, maintain armed forces, regulate interstate and foreign trade, admit new states, establish post offices, set standard weights and measures, coin money, establish foreign policy, make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out delegate powers.
Powers shared by national state governments
Maintain law and order, levy taxes, borrow money, charter banks, establish courts, provide for public welfare
Powers reserved to states
Establish and maintain schools, establish local governments, conduct elections, conduct corporation laws, regulate business within the state, make marriage laws, provide for public safety, assume other powers not delegated to the national government or prohibited to the states
Virginia plan
3 branches and for representation by population
New Jersey plan
All powers in congress and continue a one state one vote system
Great compromise
Members of the house were selected based on representation and each state would have only two senators
Who could not vote
Women, children, blacks
3/5 compromise
The slaves in the state counted towards the population
Who proposed the Virginia plan
Edmond Randolph
Who proposed the New Jersey plan
William Patterson
Where was Thomas Jefferson
Paris
Where was Thomas Paine
Europe
Who proposed the great compromise
Roger Sherman
