Challenges of a New Nation

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Rules that give each branch of government some power to control the power of the other branches.

A change to the Constitution. There have been 27 of these made to the Constitution.

The first ten amendments to the Constitution. They say the government cannot take away certain rights

The rules that the thirteen original states made after they declared independence from Great Britain.

The people who attended the constitutional convention and drafted and created the Constitution in 1787.

The group of elected representatives who make the laws of the United States and makes up the legislative branch. It has two groups, called the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

a war between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France

The rules that establish the U.S. government and tell the government what its job s are.