FAC Founding Documents

a formal revision or addition to the US Constitution.

• Amendment

• Constitution

• Rights

• Law

a legal rule that can be set out under a statute, a code, or a paragraph in a legal document.

• Amendment

• Founding

• Articles

• Rights

the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

the supreme law of the United States of America.

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.

• Constitution

• Participatory Democracy

• Articles

• Democracy

a system of dividing up power between a central national government and local state governments that are connected to one another by the national government.

• Bill of Rights

• Founding

• Federal Government

• Government

relating to the starting of a particular institution or organization.

• Founding

• Amendment

• Rights

• Laws

a model of democracy in which citizens have the power to decide directly on policy and politicians are responsible for implementing those policy decisions.

• Constitution

• Participatory Democracy

• President

• Amendment

A power or privilege held by the general public as the result of a constitution, statute, regulation, judicial precedent, or other type of law.

• Founding

• Federal Government

• Rights

• Democracy

Where was the Constitution Created

• Philadelphia

• Iowa

• Texas

• New York