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Use the excerpt below, from the Thirteenth Amendment, to answer the question that follows. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Which of the following contains a clause that may have served as an inspiration for the above language?

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Northwest Ordinances

• Federalist Papers

The Philadelphia Convention is now known as the _______ Convention.

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Continental

• Constitutional

Which person is considered to be the principal author of the U.S. Constitution?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Richard Henry Lee

• Benjamin Franklin

• James Madison

Authored by Roger Sherman, the middle ground between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan is now called the _________________.

• Great Charter

• Great Compromise

• Great Deal

• Great Event

At the Constitutional Convention, there was a major debate between large states and small states about representation in the new Congress. This debate was resolved by the Great Compromise. What was the result of this compromise?

• The number of citizens in a state would determine how many seats that state had in Congress, but slaves and other noncitizens would not be counted for this purpose.

• Congress would have two houses, one in which state representation was based on population and one in which all states had equal representation.

• The number of seats each state would have in both houses of Congress would be based on the state's population.

• Congress would be made up of two houses in which all states had an equal number of representatives in each house.

The U.S. Constitution is referred to as a "_______ document" because it can change and evolve as needed.

• dynamic

• static

• living

• permanent

What was the anti-federalists' major objection to the U.S. Constitution regarding rights?

• It did not list the rights of citizens

• It did not provide a system of checks and balances

• It did not guarantee popular sovereignty

• It did not provide a separation of powers

The Framers intended to fix the issues with the ​ (a)   in the ​ ​ (b)   .

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

Government by the people and the separation of powers are the main principles of which founding document?

• Bill of Rights

• U.S. Constitution

• Mayflower Compact

• Northwest Ordinances

 Federalism is the ________ of power between the national and state governments.

• transfer

• sharing

• allocation

• consolidation