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Chapter 6 Study Guide
Establishing a General Government
1. What was organized for the first time in 1789 in New York City?
2. Who was the first president of the United States?
3. What was the first capitol of the United States?
4. What was the first Capitol building of the United States?
5. Who was the indispensable man in Congress?
6. Who was the first Vice President of the United States?
7. What was the last state to ratify the Constitution?
8. What name was given to Washington’s group of advisors that included Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph?
9. What act provided revenue for the federal government?
10. What established the U.S. Federal judicial system?
11. What became the capitol of the United States in 1790?
12. What was the second Capitol building of the United States?
13. What established gold and silver as the medium of exchange for the United States in 1792?
14. What did George Washington issue in 1793 that presented his foreign policy as president of the United States?
The Bill of Rights
15. Who said, “A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse….”?
16. Who condensed all of the proposed amendments sent by the various states into 12 amendments?
17. What name is given to the first ten Amendments to the Constitution?
18. What was the month, day, and year of the ratification of the Bill of Rights?
19. What does the Bill of Rights protect?
20. Who said, “All men are born free and independent, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.”?
21. What part of the Bill of Rights states that “…in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.”?
22. What amendment of the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution declares that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”?
23. List the five key parts to the First Amendment:
24. What right does the 2nd Amendment protect?
25. What amendment to the Constitution protects the natural right of the people to defend themselves by force from tyrannical government?
26. What amendment to the Constitution protects Americans from being forced to quarter soldiers in their homes or on their property?
27. What amendment to the Constitution protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures?
28. List the four specific requirements that are needed for a warrant:
29. Which amendment to the United States Constitution declares “No person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”?
30. What forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same charges?
31. List the five key parts to the Fifth Amendment:
32. What amendment to the Constitution guarantees a right to a speedy and public trial, an attorney, and access to witnesses?
33. What amendment to the Constitution protects the right to trial by jury?
34. What name is given to the principle that occurs in a trial when a jury reaches a verdict contrary to the stated law?
35. Who said, “It is in the power, therefore, of the juries, if they think permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact.”?
36. What amendment to the Constitution protects individuals from excessive fines and bails, and cruel and unusual punishments?
37. Which amendment of the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution states that rights not mentioned in the Bill of Rights are “retained by the people.”?
38. Which amendment of the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution declares “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people.”?
39. What amendment declares the following: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”?
40. According to the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, what political institution assumes all powers not mentioned in the Constitution?
41. What amendments to the Constitution addressed the concern that rights not mentioned in the document would be assumed by the government to not exist?
42. Who said, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”?
Washington’s Farewell Address
43. How was Washington’s Farewell Address delivered in 1796?
44. What is the title of the following passage, “Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”?
45. What is the title of the following passage, “It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”?
46. What is the title of the following passage, “Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.”?
47. What is the title of the following passage, “The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”?
48. What is the title of the following passage, “Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”?
Jeffersonian Era
49. Who was president of the United States from 1797-1801?
50. Which acts were passed in 1798 that allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were deemed dangerous or who were from a hostile nation and criminalized making false statements that were critical of the federal government?
51. What was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1798 that declared that the United States government had exceeded its authority under the Constitution and declared that each state “Has an equal right to judge for itself” whether a law is constitutional?
52. What principle declares that States have the right to invalidate any federal law which it deems unconstitutional?
53. Which amendment declares that powers not granted to the Federal Government by the Constitution are reserved to the States?
54. What was written by James Madison in 1798 that favored states’ rights and Constitutionalism?
55. Which two Founding Fathers wrote the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions which laid out the principle of nullification?
56. What became the capitol of the United States in 1800?
57. Who was president of the United States from 1801-1809?
58. Who said, “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”?
59. What is the title of the following passage by Thomas Jefferson, “…the support of the State governments in all their rights.”?
60. Which document states that “A wise and frugal Government shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of government…”?
61. Which document contained the words “wall of separation between church and state.”?
62. According to Thomas Jefferson, what was the “wall of separation between church and state” intended to protect?
63. Who said, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”?
The Law
64. Who wrote The Law in 1850 and expounded on principles of limited government, freedom, and liberty?
65. List three principles that are promoted by Bastiat in this book:
66. What are inherent in nature and include “life, liberty, and property…”?
67. What had existed before hand that caused men to make laws in the first place?
68. According to Frederic Bastiat, what does every person have the right to use to defend their life, liberty, or property?
69. What is described in the following passage by Frederic Bastiat, “If every person has the right to defend even by force—his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follow that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly.”?
70. “______is the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so.”
71. What principle states that individuals are free from the initiation of force?
72. What “would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing” “…if everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor…”?
73. What does the following passage define “When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it—without his consent and without just compensation, and whether by force or by fraud—to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.”?
74. What does the following passage define “See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”?
75. What is the greatest evil and the greatest change that can be introduced into a society?