STAAR Review-Constitution

The protection of individual freedoms from the federal government was a demand for the addition of what component to the Constitution?

• Process of Ratification
• Separation of Powers
• Preamble
• Bill of Rights

Arguments for the ratification of the Constitution can be found
in what historical document(s)?

• The Article of Confederation
• The Federalist Papers
• Declaration of Independence
• The Bill of Rights

How would the “Three-Fifths Compromise” affect Virginia, the most populous slave state in 1790?

• It would allow for the slave population of Virginia to count
  equally in federal taxation and representation.
• Virginia would have three-fifths of the total representation
  in Congress.
• Three-fifths of the slave population would count toward
  determining federal taxation and representation.
• Three-fifths of the slave population must be set free in
  order to ratify the Constitution.

The Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights heavily influenced what provision in the US Constitution?

• separation of power
• congressional approval of all taxes
• executive authority over taxation
• equal congressional representation

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton were instrumental in
writing essays supporting what cause?

• Creating strong state governments
• Protecting the rights of individual land ownership
• Ratifying the Constitution
• Westward expansion

Anti-Federalists argued all of the following except:

• The US Supreme Court should not be able to overturn
  decisions made in the state courts.
• The federal government is given too much control over
  local affairs.
• Individual rights should be given priority over government
  authority.
• The national legislative and executive branches are not
  given enough power.

An agreement between the states
that created two houses of Congress based on both state population and equal
representation for each state.

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• The Great Compromise
• Missouri Compromise
• Articles of Confederation

An agreement of governance that
created a bond between states for foreign
affairs, but could not tax or raise an army

• Articles of Confederation
• Great Compromise 
• Bill of Rights
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 

People who argued against the ratification of the Constitution because it weakened states’ rights

• Federalists
• Anti-Federalists
• Republicans
• Political Parties

The following quote from Thomas Jefferson indicates that he supports what political position in 1788?
“Our country is too large to have all affairs directed by a single government.” – Thomas Jefferson

• Ratification
• Republicanism
• Anti-Federalism
• Federalism