The Constitution

Each state would have an equal number of votes in the legislature under the

• New Jersey Plan.
• Connecticut Plan.
• Virginia Plan.
• Maryland Plan.

The Constitution would not be ratified without at least 

• a two party system.
• female suffrage.
• an elaborate federal court system.
• a bill of rights.

Shays' Rebellion test the power of the

• Declaration of Independence.
• U.S. Constitution.
• Articles of Confederation.
• Bill of Rights.

Madison dramatized his perspective in a Federalist paper by observing that "if men were _______________, no government would be necessary."

• Puritans
• Federalists
• Anti-Federalists
• Angels

The U.S. Constitution was signed in the year

• 1781
• 1787
• 1789
• 1776

The Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution was intended to limit the power of

• the federal government.
• citizens to amend the Constitution.
• state governments.
• legislatures to amend the Constitution.

The concept of separation of power involves

• a central government and submissive states.
• strong state governments with taxation power.
• the divisions of the functions of government.
• a submissive central government and superior states.

Among other evidence from the Constitutional Convention, which of the following displayed the Framers general distrust of the will of the people.

• use of an electoral college for choosing a president.
• adoption of a five-year term of office for the president.
• a popular election of the members of the the House of Representatives.
• selection of the Supreme Court by the Senate.

Madison's confidence in the usefulness of separation of powers rested on the assumption that 

• no one would purposely seek power.
• the strongest would survive.
• human nature was basically good.
• ambitions would counteract each other.

The goal of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution was to create

• a pluralist democracy rules by a political elite.
• a republic based on a system of representation.
• a pure democracy modeled after the New England town meeting.
• a political system in which majority rule was supreme.