1.1 Ideals of Democracy
This ideal of a democracy encourages that different branches keep each other in line.
What are checks and balances?
This type of Democracy encourages people to actively take part in their democracy.
What is a Participatory Democracy?
Someone who was in favor of ratifying the Constitution and wanted a strong central government could be considered this.
What is a Federalist?
This was the original government of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
When the Articles of Confederation did not work, the founding fathers went and created this new government.
What is the Constitution?
This is an ideal that people agree to give up certain rights to maintain order.
What is a social contract?
This type of democracy focuses on encouraging putting power into the hand of groups and allowing them to create policy.
What is a pluralist democracy?
In Federalist 10. it warns about the issues with these otherwise known as political parties.
What are factions?
This issue with the Articles made it very difficult to pay for government needs.
What is raise taxes?
One of the compromises of the Constitution involved counting slaves as this much of a person.
What is 3/5?
This document was the formal separation between the United States and Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This type of democracy encourages that power is concentrated with a few powerful individuals.
What is an elite democracy?
This antifederalist essay was written to warn people about the issues that are caused by having a strong central government.
What is Brutus 1?
This issue with the Articles made it very difficult to amend the Articles because this many states needed to agree.
What is 13?
The Great Compromise created a bicameral legislature which means this many houses.
What is two?
These rights are believed to be ones that all people deserve.
What are natural rights?
The 19th Amendment to the constitution expanded voting rights to this group of people, extending participatory democracy.
Who are women?
This group was against the passing of the constitution and favored a small centralized government. They also wanted to continue using the Articles of Confederation.
Who are the Antifederalists?
This issue with the Articles made it very difficult for states to do business with each other because there was no this.
What is a national currency?
The antifederalists refused to ratify the constitution unless it included this which provided certain protections for the people from the government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This ideal is the idea of splitting up the government into different layers such as local, state, and federal.
What is federalism?
This system of electing the president coincides with an elitist democracy taking the power from the people to choose their leader.
What is the electoral college?
This future president was the author of Federalist 10.
Who is James Madison?
The inability to pay Revolutionary War Veterans led to this conflict which led to the formation of the Constitution.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
One of the compromises to the Constitution created an executive branch which is headed by this person.
What is the president?