Founding Fathers
This 1776 breakup letter told King George that the colonies were done.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This paper says “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
What is Federalist No. 51?
The event where the Founders locked themselves in a hot room and argued for months.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The president’s ultimate “nah.”
What is the veto?
The power that lets Congress formally bring charges against a public official.
What is impeachment?
America’s first government system, held together with hope, vibes, and absolutely no enforcement power.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This paper defends a powerful president and basically says energy is leadership.
What is Federalist No. 70?
The compromise that saved the Convention by creating a House AND a Senate.What is the Great Compromise?
What is the Great Compromise?
The president’s shortcut when Congress is moving too slowly.
What are executive orders?
The two rooms where legislation lives or dies.
What are the House and the Senate?
The Enlightenment idea that people are born with rights that government cannot take away.
What are natural rights?
This paper says factions are inevitable, but democracy can survive them.
What is Federalist No. 10?
The compromise everyone today wishes never existed.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The president’s ability to shape public opinion without passing a single law.
What is the bully pulpit?
The clause that quietly gives Congress a lot more power than it openly admits.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
The thinker who basically ghost-wrote the Declaration through political influence - think Social Contract theory.
Who is John Locke?
This Anti-Federalist paper says the Constitution is giving villain energy.
What is Brutus No. 1?
The plan that made small states feel seen.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The theory that says all executive power belongs to the president alone.
What is the unitary executive theory?
The part of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to declare war.
Article I, Section 8
The event that "broke the camel's back" - meaning the reason the Articles of Confederation were scrapped and delegates held a Constitutional Convention?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The only reason the Anti-Federalists finally stopped panicking.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The core argument at the Convention over where power should actually live.
What is federalism?
The hat the president wears when running the federal bureaucracy.
What is chief executive?
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