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1
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when did the constitution come about?

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1787, effective from 1789

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2
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what type of constitution does the US have?

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codified - all written in one place

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3
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does the US have separation of powers or fusion of powers?

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separation

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4
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when did the original states declare independence from GB?

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1776

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what event caused the US constitution to be created?

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after war of independence with Britain

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how many states were there originally?

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13 on the east

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what were the articles of federation?

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a confederacy (loose association of states in which all almost all political power resides with the individual states)

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why didn’t the articles of federation work?

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because of weak central government, congress had no power

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what was the Philadelphia convention?

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-all 13 states apart from rhode island attended
-aim was to revise the articles of confederation, which they then decided to scrap and so created a new constitution

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10
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who were the key founding fathers?

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-benjamin franklin
-george washington
-john adams
-thomas jefferson
-john jay
-james maddison
-alexander hamilton

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what does the constitution emphasise?

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representative government, not democracy

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