Match the Quotes to the Documents

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it impedes to fire its destructive agency.”

• Constitution

• Brutus 1

• Federalist 10

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

• Declaration of Independence

• Brutus 1

• Articles of Confederation

• Federalist 10

• Constitution

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”

• Federalist 51

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Brutus 1

• Constitution

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “I must confess that I am not afraid of the word ‘tension.’”

• Letter From a Birmingham Jail

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Brutus 1

• Articles of Confederation

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.”

• Federalist 10

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Brutus 1

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress”

• Constitution

• Federalist 10

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Brutus 1

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Letter From a Birmingham Jail

• Brutus 1

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Brutus 1

• Declaration of Independence

• Federalist 10

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

• Brutus 1

• Articles of Confederation

• Federalist 10

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

Match the following quote/excerpt to the correct document: “And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.”

• Federalist 78

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Brutus 1