Foundations of Government

Definition: The authority is divided between a central government and its political units (states).

• Federalism

• Democracy

• Representative Government

• Consent of the Governed

Loose association of states

• Parliament
• democracy
• monarchy
• confederation

Which of the following was the goal of the Constitutional Convention?

• To provide for a way to change the system of government over time.
• To rewrite the Articles of Confederation and make it a better document.
• To establish an army to put down Shay’s Rebellion
• To totally redo the system of government set in place by the Articles of Confederation.

The first Constitution in the United States

• Articles of Constitution
• The United States Constitution
• Articles of Confederation
• Declaration of Independence

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Ben Franklin
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• Sam Adams

This person argued that people are born with natural rights that cannot be taken away

• Baron de Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau Option 4 (optional)

The national government under the Articles of Confederation...

• Was very strong

• Was very weak

Under the Articles of Confederation, America used a national currency (money)

• True
• False

A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution 

• Philly meeting
• Treaty of Philadelphia
• Constitutional Convention

An agreement made at the Constitutional Convention stating that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation in the House of Representatives 

• Two-halves Compromise
• Three-fourths Compromise
• Two-fifths Compromise
• Three-fifths Compromise