2nd Marking Period Review Part 1

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Which document was this quote taken from? “Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it impacts to fire its destructive agency.”

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Federalist No. 10

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Which document was this quote taken from?  "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens…"

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Federalist No. 10

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Which document was this quote taken from? “The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.”

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Articles of Confederation

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Which document contains the quote: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”?

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Federalist No. 51

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Which document was the quote "A feeble Executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad government." taken from?

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Federalist No. 70

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Which document contains the quote: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”?

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Declaration of Independence

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Which document is this quote taken from? “A power to make all laws, which shall be necessary and proper… is a power very comprehensive and definite… and may be exercised in a such manner as entirely to abolish the state legislatures.”

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Brutus No. 1

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Which document is this quote taken from? “(Congress shall have the power) To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”

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Constitution

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This foundational document defined certain 'unalienable Rights', which included 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'

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Declaration of Independence

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This foundational document created a "league of friendship" among the 13 states, as well as a unicameral legislature with no chief executive.

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Articles of Confederation