Outline: The Constitution

1. Outline: The Constitution • Prior to the Constitution • Early attempts to govern • Articles of Confederation • Shay’s Rebellion • Constitutional Convention • The Constitution • Amending the Constitution

2. The Constitution

3. Early attempts to govern • First Continental Congress • Second Continental Congress

4. Early attempts to govern • Articles of Confederation • Background • Key features of the articles • Problems • Shay’s Rebellion

5. Early attempts to govern • Constitutional Convention • Proceedings

6. Early attempts to govern • Constitutional Convention • Participants

7. Early attempts to govern • Constitutional Convention • Proceedings • Participants • Principles

8. The Constitution • The Great Compromise • (also known as the Connecticut Compromise) • The North-South Compromise • (also known as the 3/5 Compromise) • The Final Product

9. The Constitution • The Great Compromise • First, the Virginia Plan • Next, the New Jersey Plan • Finally, the compromise

10. The Great Compromise

11. The Great Compromise

12. The Great Compromise

13. The Great Compromise

14. The Great Compromise

15. The Great Compromise

16. The Great Compromise

17. The Constitution • The Great Compromise • (also known as the Connecticut Compromise) • The North-South Compromise • (also known as the 3/5 Compromise) • The Final Product

18. The North-South Compromise • Problem: Slavery • The South’s worries • Northern states had bigger populations

19. The North-South Compromise

20. The North-South Compromise • Problem: Slavery • The South’s worries • Northern states had bigger populations • North also had fewer blacks

21. The North-South Compromise

22. The Constitution • The Great Compromise • (also known as the Connecticut Compromise) • The North-South Compromise • (also known as the 3/5 Compromise) • The Final Product

23. Separation of Powers

24. Checks and Balances

25. Checks and Balances

26. Checks and Balances

27. Checks and Balances

28. The Constitution • The Final Product • Separation of Powers • Checks and Balances • Republicanism • Federalism

29. Amending the Constitution • Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”

30. Amending the Constitution • Proposed Change “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed”

31. Amending the Constitution • Proposals • Ratification

32. Amending the Constitution