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SUPPORTER OF THE CONSTITUTION WHO FAVORED A STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
FEDERALIST
WHY WAS THE FEDERALIST WRITTEN?
TO GATHER SUPPORT FOR THE CONSTITUTION (NEW YORK ...)
NEW YORK WAS NEEDED FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE CONSTITUTION AND WAS DEEPLY DIVIDED
TO PROHIBIT FROM BECOMING LAW
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FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN WHICH THE POWER IS SHARED BETWEEN THE STATES AND THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
FEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
OPPONENT OF THE CONSTITUTION WHO WANTED A WEAK CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
ANTI-FEDERALIST
ANTI-FEDERALISTS OPPOSED THE CONSTITUTION BECAUSE IT...
WOULD DESTROY INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY
TO REVISE
AMEND
JAMES MADISON IS CALLED THE FATHER OF THE CONSTITUTION BECAUSE...
HE STRONGLY INFLUENCED THE SHAPE OF THE CONSTITUTION
TO APPROVE OF A DOCUMENT
RATIFY
TO SECURE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION, FEDERALISTS PROMISED TO ADD...
AMENDMENTS TO PROTECT CITIZEN'S RIGHTS
A PRINCIPLE THAT THE LEGISLATIVE/JUDICIAL/EXECUTIVE BRANCHES WOULD ALL HAVE DISTINCT AREAS OF AUTHORITY
SEPARATION OF POWERS
ACCORDING TO THE GREAT COMPROMISE, THE NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE SENATE WOULD BE ...
THE SAME NUMBER FOR EVERY STATE
FIRST TEN AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
BILL OF RIGHTS
THE MAIN IDEA AGAINST THE BILL OF RIGHTS WAS THAT...
THEY WERE NOT NEEDED
(Federalists argued that the Constitution did not need a bill of rights, because the people and the states kept any powers not given to the federal government. Anti-Federalists held that a bill of rights was necessary to safeguard individual liberty. )
AN AGREEMENT TO COUNT 3/5 OF A STATES ENSLAVED POPULATION WHEN DETERMINING REPRESENTATION
THREE-FIFTH'S COMPROMISE
One basic difference between the House of Representatives and the Senate is that...
the House is designed to be more responsive to public opinion
*To keep them responsive to the people, House members face re-election every two years, and the entire body is elected at the same time. A person must be twenty-five years old and a resident of the state he or she represents in order to run for a seat in the House.
*The House of Representatives is meant to be “the people’s house,” or the part of government most responsive to public opinion. Each state’s representation in the House is based on population, with each state getting at least one member. California has the most members (54), while several states, including Delaware, Vermont, Montana, and Alaska, each have only one member. Every member of the House represents a district within a state, and each district has roughly the same population (roughly 660,000 in 2006). Membership in the House is capped at 435.
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
FACTION
THE MAIN ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS WAS...
THEY WOULD PROTECT AGAINST A TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT
A SYSTEM IN WHICH EACH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT HAS THE POWER TO CHECK OTHER BRANCHES
CHECKS AND BALANCES
The Electoral College was created to ...
limit the people's power to directly elect a President
*The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
*Every state is allocated a number of votes equal to the number of senators and representatives in its U.S. Congressional delegation—two votes for its senators in the U.S. Senate plus a number of votes equal to the number of its members in the U. S. House of Representatives.