Fast and Curious - Constitution

Which is a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Congress could pass laws, but not enforce them

• No Federal Courts

• Could not collect taxes

• Could not handle a crisis

• All of the above

Which is NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Could declare war

• Strong central government

• There was a common currency

• Could regulate trade

• All of the above

For any changes to the Articles or new laws Congress needed ______ 13 states to agree.

• 13 of the

• 7 of the
• 6 of the
• 10 of the

According to the Constitution, when would the slave trade end?

• Immediately

• 1808

• 1865

• 2045

Separation of Powers

• The powers of the government are divided equally among three branches: the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial.

• Each state has its own separate government that doesn't interact with the federal government.

• The President, Congress, and the Supreme Court all have the same powers and responsibilities.

• The government separates powers between military leaders and elected officials.
  

Checks and Balances

• Each branch of government has its own powers and can operate independently without any oversight.

• One branch of government holds all the power, while the other branches serve advisory roles.

• Each branch of government has the ability to limit or check the powers of the other branches to prevent any single branch from becoming too powerful.

• Checks and balances refer to the financial auditing system that keeps track of government spending.

Reorder the following significant documents from when they happened first: 1 = first 5 = last

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

Match the following principles of government (FLIPRCS):

• Separation of Powers

• The division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.

• Popular Sovereignty

• The principle that government should be restricted in its powers and that individuals have rights that government cannot take away. Nobody is above the law.

• Limited Government

• a system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from having too much power

• Federalism

• The sharing of power between the national and state governments.

• Checks and Balances

• The idea that government only has its power because of the people.

Organize these characteristics of Federalists & Anti-Federalists.

Groups:

(a) Federalist

,

(b) Anti-Federalist

• Patrick Henry

• Alexander Hamilton

• supporters of the Constitution

• felt a Bill of Rights was necessary to the Constitution

• John Jay

• felt the Bill of Rights would limit peoples' rights

• wanted a strong national government

• national banks

• opposed the Constitution

• state banks

• Thomas Jefferson

• wanted states to have authority

Agreement that determined how enslaved people would be counted toward a state's population.

• 3/5 compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Great (Connecticut) Compromise

• Compromise of 1850