Chapter 7

Question 1

Super majority

Answer 1

A specific majority of the orders. The ratification of the Constitution almost 70%, nine of 13, of the states was required.

Question 2

Samuel Adams

Answer 2

Second cousin to John Adams he was a Massachusetts statesmen and organizer of the Boston tea party. Served in the Constitutional Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. Supposed to be strong government federal government.

Question 3

Anti-Federalist

Answer 3

Political group that was against ratification of the Constitution

Question 4

Alexander Hamilton

Answer 4

Hamilton served as the first secretary of the treasury under Washington and found at the Federalist party. He also corroded the Federalist and Championed a strong central government.

Question 5

Federalists

Answer 5

A political group that was for the ratification of the Constitution

Question 6

Edmund Randolph

Answer 6

Governor of Virginia and delegate to the Constitutional convention, Randall proposed medicines Virginia plan but ultimately refused to sign the constitution in Philadelphia because it had no Bill of Rights. Later, however, he was instrumental in persuading Virginia leadership to rectify it.

Question 7

John Jay

Answer 7

A founding father, Jay served as a president of the Continental Congress, I wrote the Federalist with Hamilton and medicine, and served as the first Chief Justice of United States Supreme Court.

Question 8

The Federalist

Answer 8

Series of essays published in New York newspapers under the pseudonym Publis for the breast purpose of giving support for ratification of the Constitution. Written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Johnjay

Question 9

Natural rights

Answer 9

Fundamental rights granted by nature that government cannot abrogate and which government is bound to protect

Question 10

Civil rights

Answer 10

Rights defined using narrow, concrete language, full of specific terms and qualifiers.

Question 11

The great oughts

Answer 11

Natural rights that don’t proclaim and “is” so much as in “aunt” about the world, the way things “should” be

Question 12

Alien and sedition acts

Answer 12

Passed by Congress in 1798 to try and stifle the “seditious” writings of French propagandists against the neutrality of the United States with regards to the French and British war.

Question 13

Mayberry versus Madison

Answer 13

Supreme Court case in which judicial review was established.

Question 14

Original jurisdiction

Answer 14

The authority of a court to hear certain kinds of cases first instead of waiting for those cases to be tried in a lower court.

Question 15

Judiciary act of 1789

Answer 15

Congressional act passed in 1789 to form the federal court system and authorize Ritz of mandamus yeah

Question 16

Midnight appointments

Answer 16

Judiciary appointment Federalist judges made by Federalist President John Adams shortly before he left office, and repost to the Democratic Republican victory in the conference and presidency.

Question 17

William Marbury

Answer 17

A midnight appointment by John Adams, Marbury sued secretary of state James Madison for delivery of his commission, which is being withheld by order of President Jefferson.

Question 18

Writ of mandamus

Answer 18

A court document forcing an action by a certain party

Question 19

Judicial review

Answer 19

Power of the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality

Question 20

Poleis

Answer 20

City or city state, often self governed by its citizens as were the ancient Greek city states.