Supported greatly increased powers of the central government.
What is Federalists?
100
Agreement between proponents of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan.
What is The Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)?
100
The division of government's powers into three branches
What is Seperation of Powers.
100
The greatest leader of the movement for a strong, centralized government at the constitutional convention.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
Most common method of ratifying an amendment.
What is ratified by 3/4 of state legislatures?
200
Proposed government will be oppressive and more individual freedoms need to be written in.
What are anti-federalists?
200
Agreement on the counting of slaves in population when considering the number of Representatives.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
200
A political system in which branches of government have some authority over the actions of the other branches.
What are Checks and Balances
200
The plan that proposed a unicameral legislature that gives the same vote for every state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
Less common method of proposing an amendment.
What is a national constitutional convention?
300
Paper explaining why a strong government is necessary.
What is The Federalist #51?
300
Relatively small, cohesive, wealthy group makes almost all of the important decisions for the nation.
What is Elite Theory?
300
The principle that government is not all-powerful, and that it does only what it's citizens allow.
What is Limited Government?
300
Greatest weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is a lack of power in the central government?
400
Less common method ratifying an amendment.
What is specifically called conventions in at least 3/4 of the state?
400
Document dealing with seperation of powers and interest groups (factions)
What is The Federalist #10?
400
Representative democracies are based on group interests that protect individual interests through representation.
What is the Pluralist Theory?
400
The division of governmental powers between a central government and the states
What is Federalism?
400
Farmer's in western Massachusetts fought back against tax collecters running judges out of their courts and freeing debtors from jail.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
The only Constitutional Amendment to be ratified through state conventions.
What is Prohibition?
500
The year and reason for the adoption of the bill of rights
What is 1791 and as a compromise between the federalists and anti-federalists?
500
Philosopher credited with the social contract theory. The only valid government is one based on the consent of the governed.
Who is John Locke?
500
The principle that the power to govern belongs to the people and that government must be based on the consent of the people
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
Author that said the writers of the constitution wrote with their own personal self interest in mind in his 1913 book titled, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution.