Colonial History
The first battle between the colonial militia and British redcoats.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This document declares that "all men are created equal..."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Framers believed that all people are afforded these "by God" (i.e. no government can take them away).
What are natural rights?
This basic principle of the Constitution refers to the division of power between the central government and the local governments.
What is federalism?
The Constitution contains this many amendments.
What is 27?
This proclamation prohibited colonists from settling in areas west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Written in 1215, this was the first English document to assert that all human beings have natural rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
The Framers feared this form of government due to its inherent nature of "mob rule."
What is democracy?
Anti-Federalists objected to the Constitution for its lack of this important piece.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment protects citizens from unnecessary search and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This compromise balanced power between the large and small states in the legislative branch.
What is the Connecticut or "Great" Compromise?
This English document was the blueprint for what eventually became several amendments to our own Constitution.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
A territory organized into a political community under the control of a government system.
What is a state?
The Articles of Confederation rarely accomplished anything because passing legislation required this many states.
What is 9 of 13?
This principle of the Constitution asserts that the people are the source of government power.
What is popular sovereignty?
This compromise prevented the South from having a substantial amount of representatives in the House.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
In this document, Alexander Hamilton declared that any government that does not uphold natural rights is an "immoral" or illegitimate government.
What is The Farmer Refuted?
This establishment of power claims that a person or group of people has "divine" right to rule.
What is inheritance theory?
In a Republic, the people have power through whom?
Who are elected representatives?
Senators are re-elected after this term of office.
What is 6 years?
These acts by the English government were the final straw for revolutionaries to desire complete independence from the British Empire.
What are the Coercive or "Intolerable" Acts?
Federalist 51 lays out the groundwork for this basic principle of the Constitution.
What are checks and balances?
This French philosopher believed that society should always be concerned with freedom, equality, and justice above all else.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
Federalist 10 was written to alleviate the fears of Anti-Federalists surrounding this issue.
What are factions?
This Article addresses how the Constitution can be changed.
What is Article V?