1. Chapter 5: The Constitution Test Review

2. A detailed, written plan for government. constitution

3. A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses bicameral

4. A group of individuals or state governments confederation

5. The first constitution of the United States Articles of Confederation

6. To vote approval of ratify

7. a law, usually of a city or county ordinance

8. A law that set up a plan for surveying western lands Ordinance of 1785

9. 1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory and a plan for admitting new states to the Union Northwest Ordinance

10. An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution Shays’s Rebellion

11. Meetings of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution Constitutional Convention

12. Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation Great Compromise

13. Agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress Three-Fifths Compromise

14. A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president Electoral College

15. A supporter of the Constitution Federalist

16. A form of government in which power is divided between the federal (national) government and the states. Federalism

17. A series of essays written to defend the Constitution The Federalist Papers

18. A person who opposed ratification of the Constitution Anti-Federalist

19. The opening section of the Constitution Preamble

20. To unite the states so they can act as a single nation, for the good of all “form a more perfect union”

21. To make sure that all citizens are treated equally “establish justice”

22. To provide peace and order, keeping citizens and their property from harm “insure domestic tranquility”

23. To be ready militarily to protect the country and its citizens from attack “provide for the common defense”

24. To help people live healthy, happy, and prosperous lives “promote the general welfare”

25. To guarantee the basic rights of all Americans, including future generations “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”

26. One of several main parts of the Constitution Article

27. Which article states how the Constitution was to be Ratified (approved)? Article VII (7)

28. Which article stated how the Constitution can be Amended (changed)? Article V (5)

29. Which article created the Legislative Branch (law- making branch; Congress)? Article I (1)

30. Which article explains the Relationship between the federal government and the states? Article IV (4)

31. Which article created the Executive Branch (enforces laws; president)? Article II (2)

32. Which article contains the Supremacy Clause, declaring that the Constitution is the “supreme law of the land”? Article VI (6)

33. Which article created the Judicial Branch (interprets laws; Supreme Court)? Article III (3)

34. the idea that power lies with the people (“People Power”) Popular Sovereignty

35. A government that can do only what the people allow it to do (government isn’t all-powerful) Limited government

36. The principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern Rule of law

37. A system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of the others Check and balances

38. Powers directly granted to the national government by the Constitution Enumerated powers

39. Powers the Constitution does not give to the federal government; powers set aside for the states Reserved powers

40. Powers shared by the state and federal governments Concurrent powers

41. A clause stating that the Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government are “the supreme law of the land” Supremacy Clause