Enlightenment Ideas
According to John Locke, government exists to protect these three things.
What is life, liberty, and property?
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This compromise counted enslaved people as 3/5 of a person for taxation and representation purposes.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
This right was NOT in the original Constitution.
This group supported a strong national government.
Who are the Federalists?
This idea means government gets its power from the people.
What is consent of the governed?
This document lacked both executive and judicial branches.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This compromise created a two-house legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
This is a protection found in the Constitution.
What is right to a trial by jury?
This group wanted a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution.
Who are the Antifederalists?
This philosopher most influenced the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
This rebellion showed the weakness of the Articles.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This type of legislature has two chambers.
What is bicameral?
This principle prevents any branch from becoming too powerful.
These three men wrote most of the Federalist Papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
This Enlightenment thinker believed people are self-interested, influencing the Constitution.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This event had 12 states send delegates to revise the Articles.
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
Representation in one chamber is based on population, the other on this.
What is equal representation?
This system allows branches to limit each other.
What is checks and balances?
The Bill of Rights was added mainly to address concerns about this.
What are individual liberties?
This rejected idea claimed rulers get power from God, not the people.
What is divine right?
This document added later addressed concerns about individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This issue caused major debate between large and small states.
What is representation in Congress?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison
Two informal ways the Constitution changes over time.
What are judicial interpretation and political practice?