By:

Miss Kristen Wright

The Constitution

“We the people of the United States”

-Constitution of the United States Preamble, September 17,1787

Republic

Inflation

Arsenal

Territory

Ordinance

Vocabulary

A republic is a form of government in which people elect representatives to govern the country.

Republic

Inflation occurs when the value of a government’s money falls because there is too much of it.

Inflation

An arsenal is a building that is used for storing weapons.

Arsenal

A territory is land that belongs to a national government but is not a state and is not represented in Congress.

Territory

In 1785 Congress passed a land ordinance ,or set of laws, that created a system to survey, or measure, the western lands.

Ordinance

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

Bill of Rights

Convention

Commerce

Federal System

Bill

Vocabulary

In 1786 some leaders called on the states to hold a convention, or an important meeting, to discuss trade among the states.

Convention

Chief among the delegates’ concerns was commerce, or trade.

Commerce

Instead, the delegates agreed to create a federal system, one in which the right to govern would be shared by the national government and the sate governments.

Federal System

Either house could present a bill, or an idea for a new law, but both had to approve it before it became a law.

Bill

Legislative

Executive

Judicial

Three Branches Of Government

Congress

They make laws

Legislative Branch

President and His Cabinet

Executive Branch

The Judicial Branch is a supreme court.

Judicial Branch

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The Preamble