Political Systems: AKS 25d

Those who supported adoption of the Constitution were called

• Abolitionists

• Democrats.

• Federalists.

• Republicans.

The Founding Fathers gained support for the Constitution by promising that

• all free males would be able to vote.

• the President would be from the South

• a Bill of Rights would be established.

• citizens would not be required to pay taxes.

Who was the primary author of The Federalist Papers, writing 51 of the 85 articles published to increase support for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution?

• John Jay

• James Madison

• William Yates

• Alexander Hamilton

The Federalist Papers were written to encourage

• the adoption of the Bill of Rights.

• the ratification of the Constitution.

• delegates in Philadelphia to write a new constitution.

• states to send delegates to the Philadelphia Convention.

Opposition to ratification of the Constitution was based on the belief that it would

• promote pluralism, which would threaten liberty.

• produce too much democracy in a strong central government.

• give too much legislative and judicial power to the states.

• provide for elite control, endanger liberty, and weaken the states.

This cartoon was published in 1788. The identified columns represent

• Confederate states.

• States in the Union.

• British Colonies in America.

• States which refused to abolish slavery.

At the Constitutional Convention, what was the reason for the conflict between states with large populations and states with small populations?

• representation in Congress

• slavery

• taxation

• power of the states

Which of these arguments were used by the Federalists to urge people to ratify the Constitution?

• I and II

• I and IV

• II and IV

• II and III

"In a free republic, although all laws are derived from the consent of the people, yet the people do not declare their consent by themselves in person, but by representatives, chosen by them, who are supposed to know the minds of their constituents, and to be possessed of integrity to declare this mind...Now, in a large extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity, to declare the minds of the people"

- excerpt from "Brutus No. 1" written in 1787

Based on the quote seen here and your understanding of the Anti-Federalists' view of government, which statement BEST describes the concerns of the Anti-Federalists?

• People do not have any voice in a representative government.

• The United States was too big for representatives to effectively speak for the people.

• A lack of integrity at the federal level was going to undermine any large political structure.

• States were not capable of governing themselves and therefore needed representatives at the federal level.

Federalist No. 51

...In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them, by different modes of election and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit. It may even be necessary to guard against dangerous encroachments by still further precautions. As the weight of the legislative authority requires that it should be thus divided, the weakness of the executive may require, on the other hand, that it should be fortified....

In Federalist No. 51, James Madison's concerns about a powerful legislative branch point to his belief in

• Federalism

• Bicameralism

• Direct Democracy

• Individual Rights