The Constitutional Convention Flashcards
What are the 8 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
- No Chief Executive
- Laws needed aprooval by nine of the thirteen states.
- Congress did noy have the power to tax citizens. It could only request tax money from states.
- Congress did not have the power to draft an army. It could only request states to send men for military services.
- No national court system.
- Any amendments (changes) to the articles must be aprooved by all 13 states.
- Congress did not have the power to collect states debts owed to the federal goverment.
- Congress did not have the power to sttle disputes among states.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
The Articles of Confederation was the first written plan of government in the United States. It allowed each state to keep its authority and created a “firm league of friendship” that loosely bound the states together
What was the Land of Oridance of 1785?
The Land of Oridance of 1885 was what adressed who got what land in the western lands.
What was the Northwest Territory? Northwest Oridance of 1787
The Northwest Territory was a group of colinies in the Ohio Valley. The Northwest Oridance of 1787 stated
- When a territory has 5,000 free adult males, it can elect its own legislature.
- When the population reaches 60,000 people that colonie can apply to congress to become a state
- Settlers have the same rights and privileges as other citizens
- Slavery is BANNED
What happend during Shays Rebbelion ? What did this proove about the Articles of Confederation?
Shay and his followers closed down court houses so they could keep them from taking their farms. This prooved that people were not happy with the Articles of Confederation and that the laws were to weak from keeping order in the states.
Ancient Greece
- Democracy
- People elect leaders to serve in goverment
- Citizenship
- Only men who owned large plots of land were citizens
Anceint Rome
- Created the first republic
- System of goverment in which people elect prepresentitives to govern them
Magna Carta
- limeted the kings power
- Signed by king john (1215)
- Did not protect most english people
- a.k.a : great charter
- charter spelled out the rights of kings and lords
- written guarantee of traditional rights and priveleges
- No taxing without the consent of the great council
- no free person could go to jail without a trial by jury
Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Idea: people would be willing to give up freedom for society
- people would do things for each other=people to people not people to ruler
- people would be willing to gibe up freedom for the needs of the majority or greater good
John Locke
- Idea: contract theory
- goverment is an agreement bettween the ruler and the ruled
- goverment can rule with consent of the governd
- beilived in inenache rights
- life, liberty, and property
Baron de Montesquieu
- idea: limit goverment powers
- divide powers among a number of authorities
- A system of: checks and balences
What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention?
Shays Rebellion prooved that the Articles of Confederation were too weak and that the federal goverment could not keep order.
Who were the important figures of the Convention?
a. George Washington was the President of the Convention
b. James Madison was known as the “Father of the Convention.”
c. Alexander Hamilton beilived in a strong national goverment.
Who were some important figures that did not attend the convention?
Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock did not attend the Convention.
What was the Virginia Plan?
a. 3 branches
b. 2 houses based on the population of each state
c. this plan favored larger states like virgina because they had a large population
d. Edmund Rancolph
