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This rebellion scared wealthy landowners because there was no national army to stop it.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
The introduction to the Constitution is called this.
What is the Preamble?
Anti-Federalists wanted constitutional guarantees for these freedoms to ensure open exchange of ideas.
What are free speech and a free press?
The Second Continental Congress created a weak central government mainly to preserve this.
What are the powers of the individual states?
The phrase “We the People” in the Preamble shows that this group is the ultimate source of authority.
Who are the American people?
One of the Anti-Federalists’ strongest arguments against the Constitution was that it lacked this.
What is a Bill of Rights?
This was a major weakness of the Articles that the Constitution fixed by creating a court system.
What is the lack of a national court system?
The Preamble goal of “insure domestic tranquility” means keeping this within the U.S.
What is peace?
Federalists argued the Constitution created this kind of government, dividing power between the national and state levels.
What is federalism?
Americans’ experience with unfair British taxes influenced them to deny the national government this power under the Articles.
What is the power to tax?
Funding the Armed Services demonstrates this Preamble goal.
What is “provide for the common defense”?
Anti-Federalists feared the Constitution might do this to individual liberties.
What is take them away (or fail to protect them)?
To pass a law, 9 out of 13 states had to agree; to amend the Articles, this many were needed.
What is 13 out of 13?
Promoting the general welfare was hard under the Articles because the government lacked this power.
What is the power to tax?
Federalists claimed the new Constitution would avoid tyranny by dividing government into these.
What are three branches of government?