Chapter 7 test

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The constitution ensures domestic tranquility and provides for the common safety, welfare, defense.

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defense

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Who did the United States Declare independence from?

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England

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Once the delegates arrived at the constitutional convention they decided to

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write a new constitution

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Why couldn't the federal government enforce laws under the Articles of Confederation? Options: there was no executive branch, there was no judicial system, congress could not pass laws.

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There was no executive branch.

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the book of essays explaining and supporting the constitution was called

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the federalist papers

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Did Anti-Federalists fear that the new constitution would create a government that could be as tyrannical as the British had been?

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True

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Why were the Articles of Confederation written?

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To bring the colonies together.

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Did Shays' Rebellion, which was over local issues in Massachusetts, have an effect on the decision to call the Constitutional Convention?

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false

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What argument did Federalists make against a Bill of Rights?

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It would limit individual rights to only those listed in the Constitution.

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what branch of government interprets the law

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judicial