The Constitution
The branch of government which is composed of the Congress of the United States
What is the legislative branch?
The city where of the Constitutional Convention occurred
What is Philadelphia?
The amount of states that were required to ratify a new constitution
What is 9 states?
This Federalist wrote the majority of the Federalist papers
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What is the Constitutional Convention?
What is the House of Representatives?
The date when the constitutional convention started
What is May 14th 1787?
What Massachusetts wanted to add to the constitution if it were to ratify it.
What is a Bill of Rights?
What is perhaps the most famous of the Federalist Papers
What is Federalist #10?
Anti-federalist worried this proposed branch of branch of government would have no real checks of power and answered to no one.
What is the Supreme Court?
The house of congress that has equal representation
What is the Senate?
What are the Nationalists?
The first state to ratify the new constitution?
What is Delaware
The federalist argued this didn't give the central government enough power to guarantee the general welfare of all the states?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
What is the Constituion?
The branch of government which includes the President
What is the Executive branch?
The faction of small states that would have prefered stronger state power and wanted merely revisions to the Articles of Confederation
What was the last state to ratify the constitution
What is Rhode Island?
Hamilton, Madison and Jay all argued that this didn't have to fear from the government created by the new constitution
What are State Governments?
Anti-federalist feared this would be used in peace time to force states to submit to the federal government
What is a standing army?
The branch of government which officials serve life long terms
What is the Supreme Court?
The architect of the Connecticut Compromise that led to the creation of a new constitution
Who is Richard Sherman?
This state only reluctantly ratified the constitution because of it despised Rhode Island
What is New York?
Madison argued the very structure of the federal protected this?
What is State's Rights?
Anti-federalist worried that the new congress acted more like this rather than a democracy
What is an Aristocracy?