1. Bell Ringer What were some things you liked about the convention?
What were some things you think should change?
How would you constructively change them?

3. Unit One Packet YAY!!! 1. Role of Government in Your Life
2. Principles of Government and the State
3. Philosophers and their Beliefs
4. Forms of Government
5. Historical Documents
6. Origins of Am Government
7. A of C Graphic Organizer (not 3B)
8. Creating the Constitution
9. Ratification and the Bill of Rights Notes
10. STUDY GUIDE!!!
11. Bell Ringers

4. The Supreme Law of the Land

5. Outline of the Constitution
1. Preamble- short intro, describes the six purposes of government

6. Outline of the Constitution
2. Body broken into 7 sections called articles:
Article 1: Legislative
Article 3: Judicial
Article 2: Executive

7. Legislative Branch Power to:
make laws and frame public policy
$$$$: purse, tax, budget
Responsibility to provide for the common defense & promote the general welfare

8. Executive Branch Power to Preserve, protect, and defend Constitution
execute, enforce, and administer law
Sign laws, treaties, executive orders, and pardons
Preserve, protect, and defend Constitution

9. Judicial Branch Power to Judicial review
interpret the laws, determine meaning and settle disputes
Judicial review
Interpret laws and decides whether Constitutional

10. Outline of the Constitution
Preamble- short intro, describes the six purposes of government
Body is broken into 7 sections called articles.
Article 1: Legislative
Article 2: Executive
Article 3: Judicial
Article 4: States – Nat. Gov’t – States
Article 5: Formal Amendments
Article 6: Constitution Supreme Law
Article 7: Ratify that Constitution
*Followed by 27 amendments

11. Ratification and the Bill of Rights

12. The Fight for Ratification
Ratification definition:
Formal approval, final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, amendment or treaty
Ratification did not come easy!
Once the Constitution was drafted it was:
Printed, circulated, and debated heavily
Federalists favored the ratification
Anti-federalists were opposed to the Constitution

13. FEDERALISTS FAVORED RATIFICATION 1. Government needed more power
Wrote Federalist Papers (New York)
J. Madison/ A. Hamilton/ John Jay
1. Government needed more power
2. Divided power between 3 branches
3. Single person executive
4. Solved specific problems of Articles
**Supported by most newspapers

14. ANTI-FEDERALISTS OPPOSED RATIFICATION
Henry/ Mason/ Adams
1. No guarantee of personal rights
2. States didn’t have enough power
3. President may become king
4. Liberties gained would be lost

15. Bill of Rights! Outcome of the fight…
Constitution did NOT provide for basic liberties
Added 3 years after
Proposed in 1st session of Congress
Ratified in 1791 by the states
AKA: the first 10 amendments

16. A summary of the first 10 Amendments
The Bill of Rights
A summary of the first 10 Amendments

17. 1st Amendment Five basic liberties (RAPPS): Freedom of/from Religion
Freedom of Assembly
Freedom of the Press
Freedom of Petition
Freedom of Speech

18. 2nd Amendment Right to bear arms
States may keep a militia (National Guard)

19. 3rd Amendment
Prevented quartering (housing) of soldiers

20. 4th Amendment Unlawful Searches and Seizures
Police must obtain warrants (court order)
Evidence gained illegally cannot be used in court.

21. 5th Amendment Cannot be forced to be a witness against yourself
Due Process
Government cannot deprive individuals of life, liberty, or property without proper notice

22. 6th Amendment
Right to a speedy and public trial
Right to an attorney

23. 7th Amendment
Right to a jury in any civil case involving more than $20 (today this is obsolete)

24. 8th Amendment No cruel or unusual punishment
No excessive bails or fines

25. 9th Amendment Unenumerated (unwritten) rights
There are rights not listed in the Constitution that people have
Gay rights, Abortion

26. 10th Amendment
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Powers not given to the National government are given to the states!
YAY FEDERALISM!