Constitutional Foundations Flashcards
How can you describe the conditions in the Post-Revolutionary War United States that???
Many of the states were near bankrupt, the economy was bad and farmers were being imprisoned over owed debts
Concerns surrounding the Constitution that emerged from the Philadelphia Convention of 1787?
Fear that the new national government would have too much power and the people too little power.
Why are some groups wanted a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?
There was a genuine fear for individual liberty from a powerful federal government
The idea of the separation of the powers in the US Constitution?
Power is distributed among three independent branches of government
Government set up by the Articles of Confederation had..
Only a legislative branch, consisting of a unicameral (one house) Congress
Soon after the arriving at the Philadelphia Convention, the delegates agreed to…
Draft an entirely new constitution
The Issue of how to count slaves towards representation in the House of Representatives was solved
The three-fifths compromise.
In order for the new Constitution to become valid, how many of the 13 states would have to ratify it??
9
Why were both the Connecticut Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise were crucial to the small states?
Without them, small Stares would have had little influence in the new government
What is one of the reasons the Anti-Federalists did not like the new Constitution?
It lacked a bill of rights
The US Constitution was written in the summer of what year?
1787
The US Constitution was written in which city?
PHILADELPHIA
The two primary plans for a new for a new government that emerged during the Constitutional Convention were in what states?
New Jersey and Virginia
A way that the executive branch checks the power of the legislative branch
Veto Legislation
What is the total number of Amendments in the US Constitution?
27
