Founding Fathers
Robertson argues that the founding fathers weren’t philosophers, political scientists, or speculators. Rather, they were…
What are politicians?
This faulty document predated the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
When framing the Constitution, some were in favour of the New Jersey Plan, and some were in favour of the Virginia Plan. In the end they had to ___.
What is compromise?
According to the Constitution, members of the Supreme Court are the only politicians who did not need ____ to stay in office.
What are votes?
This event can be studied with analytical tools used to analyze other path breaking American policy development, such as the Clayton act of 1914.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The Founding Fathers believed this branch was most important.
What is the legislative branch?
This event occurred September 17th, 1787.
What was the signing of the Constitution?
______ settled the disputes between the delegates.
What are negotiations?
This government body gained powers to ratify treaties, confirm presidential appointees, and to try impeachments.
What is the Senate?
This document resulted from a series of compromises about substantive issues, policy making procedures, and the control of policy makers.
What is the Constitution?
This man was one of the most influential and pragmatic founding fathers who took a realistic approach in creating a Constitution that all delegates could accept.
The Articles of Confederation adopted Confederacy, whereas the Constitution focused more on this political ideology that grants more power to the national government.
What is Federalism?
These demanded that the powers to legislate, to execute the law, and to judge legal disputes be separated in some way.
What are Republican Principles?
This government body would have a two year frame of reference because the political dynamics in each house could change after every national election.
What is the House?
This rebellion was one of the many causes of concern about the effectiveness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
Of the 42 delegates present on September 17th, only __(number)__ actually signed the Constitution.
What is 39?
This word, although quite representative of American government, does not show up in the Constitution.
What is democracy?
This sought to establish a national policy making system independent of the state government and with most of the authority to govern the national economy.
What is Madison’s Virginia Plan?
This person serves during two congresses and represents at least a large number of votes in many parts of the nation.
Who is the President?
These were pushed along by an evolving web of agreements about whom each branch would represents, what powers the national government would have, and what role each institution would pay in using this process.
What was the decision on policy processes?
These delegates wrote the Constitution trying to balance the needs of the government and their own basic needs.
Who were the Framers?
This article establishes treason as the only crime listed in the Constitution.
What is Article III?
Delegates used ideas as ____ ____ to defend positions/arguments that closely matched their own political interests.
What are rhetorical weapons?
This body of government embodied Roger Sherman’s aspiration to protect the interests of the states.
What is the Senate?
This state had the greatest number of delegates who refused to sign the Constitution. The delegates were Edmund Randolph and George Mason.
What is Virginia?