Articles of Confederation and Constitution

Checks and Balances is a Constitutional Principle that most directly limits the power of what other Constitutional Principle?

• Federalism

• Republicanism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separate Branches

What is the proper order for when the following documents were passed?

• Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Constitution

• Constitution, Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution

Which of the following is known as The Father of the Constitution, and also wrote many of the Federalist Papers?

• James Madison

• Patrick Henry

• George Mason

• Thomas Jefferson

Which of the following is NOT a viewpoint one that the Anti-Federalist shared?

• The Constitution needs a Bill of Rights

• The Constitution gives the federal government power to take control of the states

• A strong President is necessary to protect the country against foreign attacks.

• The President created by the Constitution to closely resembles a king.

Which of the following events was a positive result of the national government under the Articles of Confederation?

• Shay's Rebellion

• Boston Massacre

• Louisiana Purchase

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

The Great Compromise settled which major issue presented to the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention?

• How to count slaves in representation in Congress

• Should the government have an executive branch

• Who should preside over the Convention

• How population should factor into representation in Congress

Which of the following is not one of the three separate branches of the Federal government?

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

• Federalist

The 3/5th Compromise was the Constitutional Conventions solution to which of the following issues?

• How to count population representation per each state.

• How to count slaves towards state representation

• Whether slavery should continue to exist as an institution

• Whether the executive branch should have one President or more

Which of the following replaced the Articles of Confederation because it left the central government as being too weak?

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

Which of the following Constitutional Principle splits powers between the national and state governments?

• Republicanism

• Separate Branches

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty