Constitution

Question 1

The first National constitution

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The articles of confederation

Question 2

Articles of confederation

Answer 2

Created in 1781, government based around Congress

Question 3

Articles of

Question 4

Congress powers

Answer 4

Declare war, make peace, make treaties, borrow money, create post offices, admit new states, make army and navy

Question 5

Powers Congress didn’t have

Answer 5

Could not tax, or control and interfere state trades

Question 6

Why wasn’t there one head of the government?

Answer 6

They feared their country to be like Britain and prevented tyranny

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Why the articles of confederation were a problem

Answer 7

Without an executive, power to tax, and the ability to regulate trade, the Congress could not function effectively.

Question 8

Annapolis Convention

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5 states met in Annapolis, Maryland to study the trade problem. No big decisions made from lack of representation.

Question 9

Who called the convention in Pennsylvania 1787?

Answer 9

Alexander Hamilton and James Madison

Question 10

What did Congress agree on about the convention?

Answer 10

The convention would have the sole and express purpose of reviewing the articles of confederation… making it the constitutional convention.

Question 11

Confederation

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Alliance of states

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Constitution

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Framework of a government

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Commerce

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Trade

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When was the constitutional convention

Answer 14

May 1787

Question 15

What state didn’t show up at the constitutional convention

Answer 15

Rhode Island

Question 16

President of the constitutional convention that made Madison furious

Answer 16

George

Washington

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Two important leaders from the convention

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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who were influential in the writing of the declaration were in Europe serving as ambassadors.

Question 18

Oldest and Youngest constitutional convention attendee

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Ben Franklin (81) and Johnathan Dayton(26).

Question 19

The most serious task at the constitutional convention

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How to achieve a balance between liberty and authority.

Question 20

A combination of the best of the Virginia and New Jersey plans.

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The Great Compormise

Question 21

Bicameral

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Having two houses, what the congress was made to be in the great compromise

Question 22

What the large states supported

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The number of congressmen was determined by the population of the state— the virginia plan

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What the small states supported

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Each state having equal representatives— the New Jersey plan

Question 24

The great compromise called for what kind of congress?

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A bicameral (two house) congress.

Question 25

Which house had the representatives decided on population and which house had it equal?

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The House of Representatives was based on population and the Senate was equal.

Question 26

3/5 compromise

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Every slave vote counted as 3/5ths of a normal vote.

Question 27

How is the president elected?

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An electoral college— each state had as many electors as they had representatives in congress.

Question 28

Form a more perfect union

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Establish a national government that would be able to more effectively run a newly instituted nation

Question 29

Establish justice

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Provide systems within the federal and state governments that would insure basic fairness to citizens

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Insure domestic tranquility

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Make arrangements for general health, welfare, and public peace of all communities

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Provide for the common defense

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Provide the means and methods to protect our nation from the threat of war or civil insurrection

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Promote the general welfare

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Insuring that citizens have control over their lives and can make decisions

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And secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity

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A new government, to be successful, must endure. For generations without end, the preamble and the constitution would stand as protections and reminders of what our nation would strive to achieve.

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Popular sovereignty

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People source the governments powers and help influence its decisions

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Limited government

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The constitution decides which powers the government can and cannot have, preventing a dictatorship.

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Separation of powers

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All three branches of government have their powers individually, but also control one another.

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Checks and balances

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Each branch has power of the other preventing any one from becoming too overpowered

Question 38

Federalism

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Government power is divided between the states and national government.

Question 39

Republicanism

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People have the right to vote.

Question 40

Individual rights

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Basic freedom and rights are granted to every US citizen guaranteed.

Question 41

Three parts of the constitution

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Preamble, body, amendments