The Framers, Declaration, Constitution, etc

Question 1

Federalists

Answer 1

Support the Constitution

Question 2

Federalist papers

Answer 2

Defended the principles of the Constitution, but also sought to dispel fears of a strong national authority.

Question 3

Checks and balances

Answer 3

Article 1 Section 9; People couldn’t vote for Senate at first
No final check in checks and balances; No branch of gov’t has the last word

Question 4

Great Compromise

Answer 4

One chamber based on population while another based on equal representation. 
Virginia Plan (called for representation based on proportion of each states revenue to fed govt or population) + New Jersey Plan (Equal representation regardless of population) = Bicameral Legislature

Question 5

Natural rights

Answer 5

Everyone born in this country are given these rights, no one can take these unalienable rights

Question 6

Bill of Rights

Answer 6

• The only way to get the Constitution ratified; Had to make Antifederalists happy
• Rights specified in each of the ten amendments
• ninth amendement: allows new rights to be created
• Bill of Rights only taked about Natl Govt
• 14th amendment says no state shall violate due process clause

Question 7

Fear of government tyranny

Answer 7

• Seperation of Powers: 3 seperate branches; One branch shouldn’t have too much power
• Overlapping powers between branches
• Birth of federalism: Some power for nat’l power and some power for state gov’t
• Republicanism (Article 4, Sec 4): Every state the people can vote for republican form of gov’t
• Limited gov’t

Question 8

Declaration of Independence

Answer 8

• Written by Thomas Jefferson
• Document states a list of grievances that someone has with a country (divorce document)
• Talks about
  
  • Natural Rights
  • Social Contract: Concept that we create govt to protect us from other people
  • Revolution: If govt isnt doing its job we have right for a new govt
  • Consent of the govern: consent of the people shown through voting
  • Rule of Law: essentially a gov’t in which every individual must abide by the law; used for created legitimacy
• Excluded women, slaves, newly freed african americans and native americans from equality

Question 9

Shay’s rebellion

Answer 9

• Daniel Shays, a former army captain, led a mob of farmer in rebellion against the gov’t of Massachusetts, which had levied heavy taxes against them
• Wanted to prevent foreclosures on debt ridden land
• State militia dispersed the mob
• State gov’t captured 14 of the rebels
• Later that year a newly elected legislature in Massachusetts granted some of the farmer’s demands.
• Big influence on the Constitutional Convention

Question 10

Articles of Confederation

Answer 10

• First Constitution of the U.S.
• Confederation: all the power lies with the states
• Acted like 13 different countries
• Weak central govt
• Couldn’t tax or order a state to war
• No monitoring or regulation interstate commerce
• Congress couldn’t act on individuals
• No Nat’l Executive
• No Nat’l Judiciary
• No diplomatic prestige
  
  • didn’t obey treaties; other countries didn’t want to do business with U.S.