What Year?
Independence was declared on this day in this year.
What is July 4, 1776?
This British policy was abandoned with passage of the Stamp Act.
What is salutary neglect?
This man gave his name to a Massachusetts insurrection that legitimated the Federal Convention.
Who is Daniel Shays?
This liberty preserving document was appended to the Constitution as a result of a Compromise made at the Virginia Ratifying Convention.
What is the Bill of Rights?
These 85 essays are among the greatest American contribution to political theory.
What is The Federalist?
"...Remember the Ladies"
Who is Abigail Adams?
The Battle of Yorktown ended the Revolutionary War in this year.
Though he won few battlefield victories, Washington defeated a terrible winter at this encampment.
What is Valley Forge?
This issue concerns how many representatives each state gets.
What is apportionment?
The Constitution establishes a two-house, or this, legislature.
What is bicameral?
This political doctrine refers to the distribution of power to state and national government.
What is federalism?
"...all men are created equal"
Who is Thomas Jefferson or the First Continental Congress?
The Crisis began with passage of the Stamp Act in this year.
What is 1765?
The Battle of Saratoga led to this nation's entrance in the war.
What is France?
This clause Article IV provided that escaped slaves be remanded, or returned, to their legal owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?
The Constitution vests in the president this nominal power.
This 18th Century idea endorsed individual rights, limited government, and the moral equality of man.
What is liberalism?
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Who is James Madison or Publius?
Parliament passed the Coercive or "Intolerable" Acts in this year.
What is 1774?
Washington named his army this.
What is the Continental Army?
This deal established equal representation in the upper house and proportional representation in the lower.
What is the "Great" or "Connecticut" Compromise?
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution contains this elastic language.
What is "necessary and proper"?
To the Founders, legitimate government was based on this.
What is representation, consent, or popular sovereignty?
"It is no longer doubted that a unanimous and punctual obedience of 13 independent bodies, to the acts of the federal Government, ought not be calculated on."
Who is James Madison?
The Constitution of the United States was ratified in this year.
What is 1788?
This battle led to the calling of the Second Continental Congress.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Washington's Army complained that the Articles of Confederation granted the Confederation Congress no power to do this.
What is tax?
In the 3/5s Compromise, the Constitution referred to slaves as this.
What are "all other persons"?
Characteristic of republican government is the rule of law, legislative supremacy, local governance, and opposition to this form of executive power.
What is monarchy?
"For the Seeds of Liberty are universally sown there [in America], and nothing can eradicate them."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?