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Constitution Part I
STAAR Review Day 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The name given to the first ten original amendments to the U.S. constitutions that protect individual freedoms | Bill of rights |
| A set of essays written in support of the ratification of the Constitution | Federalists Papers |
| People who argues against the ratification of the Constitution because it weakened states' rights | Anti -federalists |
| The author of the majority of the Federalists Papers | Alexander Hamilton |
| Constitutional provision that ensures no single branch of government has complete authority | Separation of Powers |
| 1786 revolt in Massachusetts that revealed a need for a national government | Shay's Rebellion |
| Freedoms granted to people and protected by the government | Individual Rights |
| An agreement of governance that created a bond between states for foreign affairs, but could not tax or raise an army | Articles of Confederation |
| An agreement between the states that created two houses of Congress based on both state population and equal representation of each state | Great Compromise |
| Opening statement of the Constitution that sets its purpose | Preamble |
| Process by which each state had to approve the Constitution in order to establish the federal government | Ratification |
| Political philosophy that federal laws should be made by elected representatives | Republicanism |
| An Anti-federalist statesman that argued in defense of states' rights | Patrick Henry |
| An agreement that states could count their slave population as a fraction in comparison to their free population for the purpose of representation and taxation | 3/5th Compromise |
| People who argued for the ratification of the Constitution | Federalists |
| Idea that government should not be unrestricted in authority over individuals | Limited government |
| A federalist known as the "father of the Constitution" | James Madison |
| Gathering of representatives in 1787 in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation | Constitutional Convention |
| The principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people | Popular sovereignty |
| An anti-federalist that was instrumental in creating the Bill of Rights | George Mason |
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