A Weak Confederation
The purpose of the Articles of Confederation.
What is to unite the colonies under one national government?
The Original Purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
What was to revise the Articles of Confederation?
The essential idea in the Magna Carta that influenced the U.S. government.
What was people have rights?
What was the purpose of the Federalist?
What is to explain and defend the Constitution?
What does the three branches of government as described in Articles I–III of the Constitution illustrate the principle of?
What is the separation of powers?
Enforced the laws that Congress passed under the Articles of COnfederation.
Who were the states?
This was the main subject of debate among delegates to the Convention.
What was how the legislature would be structured?
John Locke influenced the Constitution in several ways.
What was that government is an agreement between ruler and the ruled?
What was Patrick Henry concerned about having too much power?
What is the President?
How does the Constitution reflect the principles of federalism?
What is dividing power between federal and state governments?
This involved a group of farmers who were angry about losing their farms due to low crop prices and high state taxes.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
This created a legislative system that everyone could accept.
What was the Great Compromise?
Montesquieu's idea of separation of powers kept one person or group of people from gaining too much power.
What was dividing power among three branches of government?
Why did the Antifederalists believe that it was important for the Constitution to include a bill of rights?
What is they feared that a strong central government would ignore basic rights.
What does the Supreme Court have the ability to determine in Judicial Review?
What is if a law passed by Congress is unconstitutional?
The laws that Congress passed relating to the Northwest Territory were considered a success.
What was granting essential rights and civil liberties to settlers?
This determined how enslaved people would be counted in the population.
What was the Three-Fifths compromise?
What finally persuaded the delegates to the Virginia convention to ratify the Constitution?
What is adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
The principal of separations of powers makes this possible among branches of government?
What are checks and balances?
What were some delegates thinking when they refused to sign the Constitution.
What was they thought the Constitution gave too much power to the national government?