Gov 2 The founding and the constitution

What was the primary goal of the Constitution's framers?

What led the British to raise taxes on the American colonists during the 1760s?

Colonial protesters of the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act rallied around what famous political slogan?

The Stamp Act was a

Who defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?

Who was not appointed to help draft the Declaration of Independence?

A ______ is a system of government in which states retain sovereign authority except for powers expressly delegated to a national government.

The first written constitution for the United States was called

Under the United States' first constitution

How was the power in Congress divided under the Articles of Confederation?

Under the Articles of Confederation, it was left to the ______ to execute the laws passed by Congress.

The Articles of Confederation were adopted in

A conference held to analyze perceived flaws in the articles of confederation was called the

Which was the only state not to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention?

Shay's Rebellion was significant because it

According to historian Charles Beard, the framers of the Constitution were most concerned with

The Virginia Plan of the Constitutional Convention proposed a system of representation in the national legislature that was based upon

What did the New Jersey Plan propose for Congress?

During the Philadelphia Convention, the New Jersey Plan was supported by

The issue of representation, which threatened to wreck the entire Constitutional Convention, was resolved by the Great Compromise, also called the

Which of the following was a consequence of the Three-Fifths Compromise?

The Great Compromise led to the

The ability of the president to veto a bill passed by Congress is a good example of what principle of limited government?

The electoral college is

The framers of the Constitution intended to create a presidency capable of

Which of the following was designed by the framers to be an office directly elected by the people?

What is the term length of a member of the House of Representatives?

Which of the following was a way the framers tried to make the Senate a check against excessive democracy?

Only one- thirds of the Senate is up for re-election during any single election year because the framers believed that

Judicial review is the power of

What is the term length of a federal judge?

To amend the Constitution requires a ______ vote by Congress, and approval by ______ of the states.

The supremacy clause

Whose "political gospel" inspired the framers to adopt the concept of the separation of powers?

The system of shared powers, divided between a central government and the states, is called

During the ratification debates, who were the Antifederalists?

In the national debate over ratification of the new Constitution, the Federalists

Who were the writers of the Federalist Papers?

Brutus and Federal Farmer are two pseudonyms used by the

Each of the following was an Antifederalist except

The Antifederalists argued that the powers of government should be limited by

The Federalists believed that the powers of government could be limited by

The most common method of passing an amendment to the Constitution is

How many amendments are there to the U.S. Constitution?

Which constitutional principle of the United States has been most frequently imitated by other nations?

Why did the Equal Rights Amendment fail to pass?

The most important political value for the framers of the Constitution was

The idea of a "living constitution" means