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What is the Bill of Attainder?

No punishment can be served without a trial.

What is the Ex Post Facto law?

It is when you can not be punished for a crime that was not a crime at the time.

What are the 3 powers denied to the States?

1.) States can not have war power (no navy).


2.) States can not have there own kind of money.


3.) States can not extract alliances with foreign powers.

What is the Supremacy clause?

It states that the constitution is the supreme law of the land.

What does Writ of Habeas Corpus mean?

A court order to produce the body.

Implied Powers are?

Not written power.

Expressed Powers are?

Written Powers.

Would it be the States or Federal government that would write the laws that govern our school?

States because it is not specified in the federal government.

What is the 10th Admendment?

The powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Define Federalism

Shared power between the State and Federal government.

How many Admendments have been proposed in Congress? How many have the States been sent? How many have been ratified?

Around 12 thousand, 33, 27.

What is Judicial Review?

Supreme Court can declare the executive acts and the president unconstitutional.

Look at picture.

Look at picture.

What is the story behind the Virginias ratification?

A battle between Madison and Patrick Henry and Virginia passed ratification because of an agreement between Madison and Jefferson about the Bill of rights.

What was the main complaint of the people who did not support ratification?

No bill of rights.

What is the book they wrote to support ratification?

The Federalist Papers

People that did not support ratification were called?

Anti-Federalist

People who supported ratification of the Constitution were called?

Federalist

What is the best reference to look up info about the debates of the Federal Convention of 1787?

Notes of Federal Convention by James Madison

How many of the delegates had college degrees?

26 out of 55

Why was it important that Washington be the president?

He was the only southern that the north trusted.

Who is the Eldest member of the convention?

Ben Franklin (81)

What did the "Father" of the Constitution do before he wrote it?

Read over 200 books

Who is the "Father" of the Constitution?

James Madison

Which state refused to send delegates? Why?

Rhode Island because the farmers were taking advantage of the inflation.

What city was the Constitution debated in?

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania