The Constitutional Convention
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This faction advocated for the adoption of the new Constitution because of the shortcomings of the existing Confederacy system.
Who were the Federalists?
The definition of Federalism.
What is "the System of shared power between Sovereign States and a shared collective government?"
The Supreme Law of the Land.
What is the Constitution?
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution which mostly protect individual liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The main shortcoming of the Articles of Confederation which led to calls for revision and amendment.
What is regulation of interstate trade?
One of the two key states, along with Virginia, that were the main battle grounds of the Ratification Crisis.
What is New York?
Only States have this incredibly broad power, but delegate some of it to the Federal Government.
What is General Police Power?
The system where one Branch of Government can reach into the areas of responsibility of the other branches.
What is Checks and Balances?
The current number of Amendments to the Constitution.
What is 27?
He presided over the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and lent the body credibility.
Who is George Washington?
The third author of the Federalists papers who wrote only 5 of the 85 total essays.
Who is John Jay?
The Article of the Constitution that deals with Interstate Relations in the Federal System.
What is Article IV?
Popular Sovereignty is not prevalent throughout the Constitution, but it does appear in these three words which begin the Preamble.
What are "We the People?"
One of four Constitutional Amendments about who can vote.
What are the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments?
This rejected structural proposal reflected Britain's parliamentary system and was favored by the large states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The Leading Anti-Federalist in Virginia.
Who is Patrick Henry?
A State's General Police Power is limited only by the U.S. Constitution's grants exclusively federal powers and protections of fundamental citizen rights along with this other limitation.
What is the State's own Constitution?
The Judicial Branch's strongest check on the legislative and executive branches.
What is Judicial Review?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are called the "Civil Rights Amendments" and were all passed during this historical era.
What is Reconstruction?
The main proposer of the Connecticut Compromise which was ultimately adopted to form the basic structure of the American Government
Who is Roger Sherman?
What is Federalist 51?
Instituting a Draft is an example of this kind of Federal Power.
What is Implied Powers?
Confirmation is check on which branch by what other branch?
What are the executive and legislative branches?
This amendment reinforces the concept of Federalism by reserving powers not delegated to the Federal Government to the States.
What is the 10th Amendment?