Required Documents

Question 1

Declaration of independence

Answer 1

telling England they wanted independence and reasoning

• unalienable rights
• gov protects citizens rights
• gov’s power comes from the people
• taxation w/o representation

Question 2

Articles of confederation

Answer 2

1st “constitution”, did not last long

ISSUES:
- no taxation power
- no president/ leader
- no judiciary
- issues with passing and changing laws

Question 3

The Constution

Answer 3

(Seperate deck)

Question 4

Federalist no. 10

Answer 4

FACTIONS
- to get rid of factions - remove freedoms
- representative democracy - controlled factions
- pure democracy can not control factions
- federalism can control factions
(Fact10ns)

Question 5

Brutus 1

Answer 5

Against the constitution

• necessary and proper and supremacy clauses gave too much fed power
• disagrees with power to tax

Question 6

Federalist 51

Answer 6

Checks and balances
(Montesquieu)

• the 3 branches
• each branch can control and power itself but the other can control it too to prevent tyranny
• congress is most powerful, divided into house and senate

Question 7

Federalist 78

Answer 7

life terms of judiciary (court)

• needed if courts are supposed to be able to defend laws and the constitution
• judiciary is weakest of branches
• must be independent

Question 8

Federalist 70

Answer 8

strong executive

• the executive is needed to: carry out laws, protect, prevent anarchy :(, make quick decisions, and take action
• plurality in congress = deliberation & debating
  Vs. plurality in executive = slow decision making

Question 9

Letter from a Birmingham jail - MLK

Answer 9

** Christianity, civil disobedience, and freedom**
- rhetorical debate
- denying justice for one = threatens justice for ALL