Writing the Constitution

were in favor of ratifying the Constitution

• Federalists

• Anti-federalists

The phrase "We the people", found in the preamble of the US Constitution demonstrates

• limited government

• individual rights

• due process

• self government

• rule of law

The Connecticut Compromise

• created a bicameral legislature

• is also called the Great Compromise

• determined each state would have 2 senators regardless of population

• determined that the number of representatives would be based on a states population

• determined that the number of senators would be based on a states population

The Connecticut Compromise included

• a bicameral legislature

• A House of Representatives with representation based on population

• 
  a Senate with equal representation for all states

• 
  a House of Representatives with equal representation for all states

• 
  a unicameral legislature

Shays' Rebellion showed

• that the weak national government was vulnerable to anarchy

• that more laws were needed in order to control the people

• that state militias would be able to end any protests by the people

• that powers should be taken away from the states

Another name for the Great Compromise

• Connecticut Compromise

• Virginia Compromise

• 
  Continential Compromise

• 
  3/5ths Compromise

• 
  New Jersey Plan

Determined how many enslaved people would be counted for both representation and taxation

• Articles of Confederations

• 3/5ths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• the Legislative branch

Wrote the Federalist Papers

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Jay

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

  
  

• John Adams

How many Articles are in the US Constitution?

• 27

• 10

• 7

• 3

• 37

Which are true of the Anti-Federalist?

• complained that the Constitution had been written in secret

• feared that the Constitution took too much power away from the states

• 
  felt that a Bill of Rights was necessary

• claimed that the Constitution was extralegal

• felt that a Bill of Rights was unnecessary