1. The month the U.S. Constitution was signed by the delegates at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

 

2. The Motto of the United States of America is

 

3. The 1787 Constitution replaced the Articles of -------------

 

4. According to the rules of the Constitutional Convention, no matter how many delegates a state sent, each state was given only one vote.

They all had to agree on their one vote. If everyone casts the same vote, the vote is said to be ---------

 

5. This state did not send delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

 

6. Article II of the Constitution establishes this branch

 

7. To express gratitude for the new Constitution, President George Washington declared our first national ------------

 

8. A militiaman during the Revolutionary War, he played a critical role in establishing the financial stability of the United States.
He advocated for the Constitution through essays now called The Federalist Papers.

 

9. The Fifth Amendment says, "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

The government's authority to take a citizen's land is known as ------- ------

 

10. They establish the rights of individual American citizens that the government must respect.

 

11. During the Constitutional Convention discussions, the doors to the building were

 

12. Amendment VIII, which was ratified on December 15, 1791, protects citizens against the imposition of --------- ----.

 

13. The Constitution was written in this building.

 

14. This delegate from Connecticut proposed a two-house legislature, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives (based on population).

 

15. In 1776, a group of delegates, who had gathered in Philadelphia, approved the Declaration of

 

16. The Constitution became the law of the land on June 21, 1788, when this number of states had ratified it.

17. The fifth state to ratify the Constitution.

18. Supporters of the Constitution believed that the checks and balances system would allow a strong central government and still preserve the rights of the ------ .

 

19. On July 12, ------ Ellsworth, of Connecticut, proposed that representation for the lower house be based on the number of free persons
and three-fifths of "all other persons," (slaves). He participated in drawing up the first draft of the Constitution.

 

20. The last name of the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention.

 

21. Per the U.S. Constitution, ll bills for raising Revenue initiate here.

 

22. The Constitution specifies that the House of Representatives has the sole power to bring charges against an official.
This is called -----------

 

23. Anti-Federalist Samuel ----- wrote his "Centinel" essays. He argued the Constitution had created a new government that would
become one controlled by the wealthy families and the culturally refined. He believed the common working people would be left out.

 

24. This group elects the President.

 

25. Patrick Henry, who once said "Give me Liberty or give me death", refused to attend the 1787 Constitutional Convention, saying he "smelt a ---."

 

26. Over 11,000 amendments have been introduced in Congress. Thirty three amendments have gone to the states to be ratified.
How many have been approved by 2/3rds of the States and so became the law of the land?

 

27. The length of service of elected officials are called terms. Terms are measured in -----

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