Systems of Government
A System of Government determines how _______ is divided in a country.
What is Power?
What system of government did the Articles of Confederation create?
What is a confederal system?
What was the intention of the preamble to the Constitution?
What is to be an introduction and to establish the goals of the new government?
How did the federalists feel about the Contitution?
What is they were in support of it?
How did the Anti-federalists feel about the Constitution?
What is They felt it gave the national government too much power and needed to changed before it could be ratified?
This system of government shares power between the central or national government and the states.
What is a Federal system?
What was the main issue with the Articles of Confederation?
What is a too-weak National Government?
How does the government establish justice?
What is by protecting our rights and holding people accountable for their actions?
The Federalists borrowed what idea from the Enlightenment thinker Baron de Montesquieu to keep the government from abusing its power?
What is the separation of powers?
Which socioeconomic group would have supported the Anti-Federalists: The City-Dwellers or Rural Farmers?
Who are rural farmers?
This system of government gives the national government very little power and gives state governments most/all of the power.
What two branches of government did the United States of America lack under the Articles of Confederation?
What are the Executive and Judicial Branches?
Give an example of how the government provides for the common defense?
What is creating a national army?
What was the name of the series of Essays written by the Federalists?
What are the Federalist Papers?
What did the Anti-Federalists require be added to the U.S. Constitution in order for it to be ratified?
What is the Bill of Rights?
This system of government gives all power to the national government.
What is a unitary system?
What rebellion made governmental leaders aware that the Articles of Confederation needed to be replaced?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
What does it mean to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity"?
What is the government protecting freedoms now and for future generations?
What clause did the Federalists support granting to Congress to expand its power to meet the needs of the people?
What was the Necessary & Proper Clause?
What system of government would the Anti-Federalists have supported the most?
What is confederalism or a confederation?
The United Kingdom has a parliamentary government where ultimate sovreignty rests with Parliament, even though Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have smaller legislatures as well. What type of system of government does the U.K. have based on this information?
What is a unitary system?
What is one problem that arose from the Articles of Confederation?
Congress - no power to create laws, could not control disputes between states, could not enforce laws, no power to raise a national tax
no court system, no executive branch
changes to the Articles of Confederation needed unanimous consent.
What problem from the Articles of Confederation did the goal "...ensure domestic tranquility" fix?
What were the conflicts between the states?
What Tony Award-Winning Musical was created based on the most famous Federalist?
What is Hamilton?
Name one well-known or famous Anti-Federalists?
Who are Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and Patrick Henry?