Lesson 12

Question 1

Ex post facto

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Changes the legality of an act after it has occurred

Question 2

Secede

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Withdraw

Question 3

Supremacy clause

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Article 6 section 2

Question 4

Tariffs

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Taxes on imports of manufactured goods

Question 5

Delegates included phrases in the constitution that

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Set forth powers of the national government

Question 6

Article I section 4: grants state legislatures power to decide

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Details of elections for senators and reps but also grants congress power to make or change those regulations

Question 7

Article I section 8: gives congress power to set

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Procedure for calling the militia into national service

Question 8

Article IV, section. 3: gives congress power to

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Create new states

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Article IV, section 4: gives national gov power to guarantee each state a

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“Republican form of government”

Question 10

Article IV, section 4: requires national government to protect states from

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Invasion or violence

Question 11

Article vi, section 2: supremacy clause, makes constitution and all laws and treaties approved by congress the

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Supreme law of the land. States that judges in state courts must follow the constitution or federal laws and treaties

Question 12

(Provisions to protect rights)national gov may not suspend the

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Writ of habeas corpus unless public safety at require if

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(Main parts of electoral college) national government may not pass

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Ex post facto and bills of attainder

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(Main parts of electoral college) national gov may not suspend the right to

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Trial by jury

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(Main parts of electoral college) protection from the accusation of

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Treason which can only be changed by a constitutional convention

Question 16

Bill of attainder: punishment ordered by a legislature rather than by a court which declares

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A person guilty of a crime and decrees a punishment without a judicial trial

Question 17

(Provisions to protect political independence) members of congress cannot be arrested unless they commit

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“Treason, felony, and beech of peace”

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(Provisions to protect political independence) congress cannot impose

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Religious test on people who hold national office

Question 19

(Provisions to protect political independence) if member of executive or judicial are accused of misconduct

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Impeachment clauses protect their right to fair trial

Question 20

(Provisions to protect political independence) national gov cannot take money from treasury without

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Appropriations

Question 21

(Provisions to protect political independence) national gov cannot grant

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Titles of nobility

Question 22

States prohibited from:

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Coining own money
Passing laws that violate contracts
Ex post fact/ bills of attainder
Entering foreign treaties/ declaring war
Granting titles of nobility
Levying taxes on imports: exports except as necessary
Keeping troops/ ships in times of peace
Discriminating against another states citizens
Refusing to return fugitives from justice to states from which they left

Question 23

Most delegates opposed

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Slavery

Question 24

Words slave and slavery never

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Appear in the constitution

Question 25

Slaveholder a considers slaves to be

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Personal property

Question 26

Most delegates argued that slavery was a

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State institution like other issues related to property rights

Question 27

Some states suggested that if the constitution interfered with slavery they would

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Not become part of he new nation

Question 28

Fugitive slave cause: shows how delegates attempted to

Answer 28

Balance views regarding slavery

States that if a slave escapes to another stage thy must be returned to owner

Question 29

Constitution was not to make slavery

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Legal on a national level

Question 30

Southerners wanted a 2/3 vote of

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Both houses to pass committees

Question 31

Southern delegates feared that northern congressmen would

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Seek tariffs

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Constitution provided that national government would not interfere with

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Importation of slaves earlier than 1808

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Slavery was the only issue that was

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Not directly addressed

Question 34

Constitution said nothing about

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National citizenship

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Question of citizenship left to each state due to fact that

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Delegates couldn’t agree

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Constitution said little about

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Voting rights

Question 37

Each state had its own voting laws that defined

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Property qualifications

Question 38

Constitution prescribes voting rights only once stating that anyone with the right to vote for

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“The most numerous branch in the state legislature” can also vote in elections for the house

Question 39

Argument that voting for the house should be

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Restricted to landowners

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Americans were unlikely to ratify the constitution if it

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Repealed their voting rights

Question 41

Constitution barely suggests

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Boundaries between national and state power

Question 42

Issue of a states right to secede from the U.S. Once they ratified the constitution was not

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Addressed within the constitution

Question 43

States argued that they possessed the right to

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Secede if the gov enacted measures that were intolerable

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A civil war would

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Resolve this question