History Words Chapter 2 Flashcards
Amendment 5
Prohibits trial for a crime except on indictment of a Grand Jury and double jeopardy.After The trial a law inforser can not are at said person can not arest
Said person
Amendment
A change or a addition to a legal document. This is why the constitution is called “Living Document”. Constitution has 27 amendments
Amendment 6
Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jur
Amendment 7
Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.
Amendment 8
Prohibits imposing cruel, unusual punishments and fines, prohibits granting excessive bails.
Amendment 9
Assures the recognition of those rights that people
Amendment 10
Provides that the powers that are not given to the United States nor prohibited by the constitution are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.
Article of confederation
The plan rafilied by the states in 1781
Constitution convention
The meeting of state delegates in Philadelphia in 1787 that resulted in the writing of the Constitution.
New Jersey plan
A plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
Virginia Plan
A plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
Federalist
A person who favored the plan of the government
Anti federalist
A person who opposed ratification of the government
Surveyed
To measure land to determine the exact boundaries
Northwest ordinance
The 1787 law that set forth a plan of government for the townships 36 sq miles at one dollar an acre in the Northwest Territory. Created by Thomas Jefferson. The law banned slavery, gave freedom of religion and trial by jury. 60,000 citizens in territory to apply for statehood
