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WorksheetsThe Enlightenment & American Democracy (Notes and 3.3)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which influential philosopher believed in the freedom of expression?
Montesquieu
John Locke
Thomas Paine
Voltaire
Those who favored the ratification of the Constitution were called:
Federalists
Shaysites (for Daniel Shays)
Ratifiers
Magna Carta
By definition Federalism means:
a system of checks and balances.
a sharing of power between the senate and the house.
a sharing of power between the federal and state government.
all of the above
Antifederalists criticized the constitution because...
it was too long to read.
it gave the states too much power
it lacked a bill of rights
it would lead to disorder like Shays's Rebellion.
The Constitutional Convention was held in ...
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
None of the above
The separation of powers, a key component of the Constitution, comes from the writings of Montesquieu in...
The Spirit of Laws
The Goblet of Fire
Common Sense
The Magna Carta
Which plan for the blueprint of the constitution put forth that the number of representatives (in both houses) should be proportional (to the size of the population in each state)?
The Virginia Plan
The New Jersey Plan
The Articles of Confederation
Dancing with the Stars
People who supported the Constitution were called...
Loyalist
Federalists
Antifederalists
Bob
Which of these gifted American political thinkers supported the ratification of the Constitution?
John Jay
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
All of the above
Who said: " Kings can be overthrown if they violate peoples' natural rights"?
Locke
Beccaria
Rousseau
Voltaire
