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Antifederalists’ concerns about the Constitution |
included a concern that the Constitution did not specifically enumerate protected civil liberties |
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As a political value, individual liberty |
was preeminent for the Constitution’s authors. |
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Changing the structure or composition of the federal government |
has been the motivating factor behind most of the post-Bill of Rights amendments. |
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Counting slaves as ____ for the purposes of census did not allow slaves to ____. |
three-fifths of a person; vote |
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In general, the Federalists’ future vision of the United States |
triumphed over the Antifederalist vision. |
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Income taxes |
were not in existence in the mid-eighteenth century. |
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One key demonstration of the weakness of the Articles of Confederation was |
the size and duration of Shays’s Rebellion. |
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Proponents of the idea of the "living" Constitution would likely support the concept of |
judicial review. |
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The Articles of Confederation |
preceded the U.S. Constitution. |
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The Bill of Rights mollified concerns about |
an overly powerful central government. |
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The New England-based merchants and southern planter |
organized together in opposition to taxes imposed by the Stamp and Sugar Acts |
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The concept of the "mixed regime," so called by theorists such as Montesquieu and incorporated into the Constitution, meant that each branch of government |
had a distinct constituency. |
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The core component of the New Jersey Plan was that |
each state would be equally represented in the new regime regardless of that state’s population. |
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The elastic clause |
gives Congress the ability to pass laws necessary to carry out its expressed powers. |
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The executive leader or presiding officer specified by the Articles of Confederation |
did not exist; the Articles specified no executive leader. |
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The process of amending the Constitution is ____, leading to a ____ proportion of proposed amendments succeeding. |
difficult; very small |
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The total boycott of all British goods in the colonies came immediately after which event? |
creation of the First Continental Congress |
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Under the Great Compromise, the Senate |
was an arena where large and small states would compete on equal footing. |
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Which of the following did the Antifederalists most vigorously disapprove of? |
the elastic clause |
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Which of the following statements about the Declaration of Independence is accurate? |
It specifically identified and focused on grievances, aspirations, and principles that might unify the various colonial groups. |
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Which of the following structural aspects was established for the legislature by the Constitution? |
The Senate was given the power to approve presidential appointments. |
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Which of the following was established in the Tenth Amendment? |
Powers not specifically granted by the Constitution to the federal government were reserved to the states or to the people |
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