history mid term
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- #1
- gaurentees freedoms: speech, religion, press, petition assembaly
- #2
- allows the state to maintain a militia
- #3
- restricts the quartering of troops in private homes
- #4
- protects against unreasonable searches and seizures
- #5
- due process of law with regard to teh accused
- #6
- right to a speedy and fair trial
- #7
- assures the right ot a jury and a jury trial in cases involving common law
- #8
- protects against exsessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment
- #9
- provides the peoples rights are not restricted to those listed in the constitution
- #10
- provides that powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states
- #11
- suits against states
- #12
- changed the way the vice president is elected, seperate ballots
- #13
- abolished slavery
- #14
- rights of citizens; equal protection under the law
- #15
- right to vote regardless of race
- #16
- congress has the right ot collect taxes
- #17
- direct election of senators by the people
- #18
- prohibition
- #19
- women's sufferage; right to vote
- #20
- "lame duck"
- #21
- repealed the 18th amendment
- #22
- presidential tern limit (2 terms)
- #23
- electorial votes for the district of columbia
- #24
- abortion of the poll tax
- #25
- presidental disibility and sucession
- #26
- right to vote from 21 to 18
- #27
- restrictions on congressional pay raises
- popular sovereinty
- authority of the people
- federalism
- a system in which the power to govern i shared between the national government and the states
- reserved powers
- powers retained by the states
- enumerated powers
- powers of the federal government
- manumission
- the freeing of individual enslaved persons
- checks and balances
- kept any one branch of the governmeant from having to much power
- judicial branch
- court system of the united states
- executive branch
- headed by the president, it carries out the nation's laws and policies
- ratify
- approve
- james madison
- wrote the virginia plan
- william paterson
- proposed the new jersey plan
- virginia plan
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two house legislature, a chief executive chosen by the legislature, court system
The members of the lower house would be elected by the people and the members of the upper house would be elected by the lower house. In both houses the number of represtatives would be based on the population of your state. - new jersey plan
- One-house legislature, one vote for each state. Congress could set taxes and regulate trade. Each state would ahve an equal number of representatives.
- great compromise
- Two house legislature, the lower house representatives would be based on population, and the upper house (senate) each state would have two representatives.
- roger sherman
- proposed the great compromise
- george mason
- proposed the bill of rights
- legislative branch
- makes the nations laws, and can lay and collect taxes
- 7 articles of the constitution
- 1. legislative branch 2. executive branch 3. judicial branch 4. relations among states 5. amendment process 6. national supremacy 7. ratification