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Chapter 5 Study Guide

Turmoil in the States

1.  Who wrote Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786 and denounced the use of government power to force religion upon people?

2.  What name was given to the fiat currency that was printed by the states that resulted in inflation and economic instability in America after the War for Independence?

3.  What rebellion took place in Massachusetts from 1786-1787 that was used by the critics of the Confederation as a pretext to amend (abolish) the Articles of Confederation?

4.  What convention was held in Maryland in 1786 that called for another convention to assemble the following year in Philadelphia?

The Constitutional Convention

5.  What convention was held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1787 to amend the Articles of Confederation?

6.  Who was the President of the Constitutional Convention?

7.  Who is known as the “Father of the Constitution” and wrote a number of the Federalist Papers?

8.  Which two “Titans of Independence” were not present during the Constitutional Convention?

9.  What plan was written by James Madison and proposed by Edmund Randolph that became the outline for the Constitution?

10.  Which states did not like the Virginia Plan because they feared that the large states would outvote them?

11.  What plan was presented by William Paterson that affirmed that each state would receive one vote?

12.  What did Roger Sherman of Connecticut offer to appease both the large and small states?

13.  Who was part of the Committee of Style, put to prose the principles of the Constitution, and wrote the Preamble?

14.  What was the month, day, and year of the signing of the Constitution of the United States?

Ratification

15.  What name is given to the time period of from 1787 to 1788 when many Founding Fathers debated whether or not to adopt the Constitution?

16.  What name was given to those who promoted the ratification of the Constitution?

17.  What name is given to the collection of 85 essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788 to explain and promote the ratification of the Constitution?

18.  Who stated that “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”?

19.  What name was given to those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution?

20.  What was NOT originally included in the Constitution?

The Constitution

21.  What form of government was adopted by the Founding Fathers and is defined as “A state where officials are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the government's power over citizens.”?

22.  What term refers to the meaning and understanding of the Constitution as set forth by the Founding Fathers?

23.  What name is given to the following passage of the Constitution? “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.”

Article I

24.  Which branch of the government is vested with “All legislative powers…” and makes laws?

25.  What is the legislative branch of the United States and refers to both houses: House of Representatives and Senate?

26.  Which house of Congress received its power from the people and is elected by the people?

27.  What decides the number of representatives for each state?

28.  How long are the terms of the members of the House of Representatives?

29.  What are the qualifications for Representatives?

30.  Which house of Congress originally received its power from the States and was selected by state legislatures to ensure state representation in the nation’s capital?

31.  How many Senators does each state receive?

32.  How long are the terms of the members of the Senate?

33.  What are the qualifications for Senators?

34.  What is the process for the removal of a governmental official for treason, bribery, or other high crimes, and misdemeanors?

35.  What becomes a law after it had been voted upon by a majority of the House and Senate and is signed by the President?

36.  What can a president use to strike down a law that he deems unconstitutional, but can be overridden by a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate?

37.  What are the expressed powers of Congress that are spelled out and listed in detail in Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution?

38.  According to the Constitution which branch of government has the following powers: Levy taxes, borrow money, pay off the federal debts, declare war, raise and support armies, regulate foreign commerce, coin money, regulate patents and copyright, control the postal system, etc.?

39.  What part of the Constitution contains the following “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”?

40.  What is the name of the following clause of the Constitution: “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States”?

41.  What principle safeguards an individual’s freedom from arbitrary state action?

42.  What law is prohibited by the Constitution that makes an illegal act retroactive and means “after the deed or fact”?

43.  What part of the Constitution contains the following? “No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.”

44.  What is the only form of currency mentioned in the Constitution?

45.  What clause in the U.S. Constitution facilitated free and open trade between states and prohibiting the use of tariffs on interstate trade?

Article II

46.  According to the Constitution which branch of government has the following powers: serve as commander in chief of the armed forces, commission military officers, conduct foreign affairs, grant pardons, veto legislation, make treaties, etc.?

47.  Which branch of the government carries out laws and is directed by the president?

48.  How long are the terms for the President of the United States?

49.  What are the legal qualifications to be President?

50.  What institution was created for the sole purpose of electing the president and vice president of the United States with electors chosen by individual states based on the number of U.S. Representatives and Senators that each state has, and these electors can vote for any candidate of their choice regardless of the popular vote of that state?

51.  Which office takes the following oath, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will faithfully execute the Office of______of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”?

52.  What institution can approve treatises, Cabinet-level appointments, and appointments to the Supreme Court?

53.  What is the process conducted by Congress to remove a governmental official from office?

Article III

54.  What Federal court has nine judges, gives decisions in situations where laws have been broken, and is the highest court in the United States?

55.  What processed can be used to remove judges from office?

56.  According to the Constitution which branch of government has the following powers: controversies involving two or more states, all cases arising from the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties, all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, etc.?

57.  What has the authority to determine and restrict the jurisdiction of federal courts through Jurisdiction Stripping?

Articles IV-VII

58.  What has the power to propose Constitutional Amendments?

59.  How many votes are required for both houses to propose an amendment to the Constitution and how many state legislatures are required to approve the proposed amendment?

60.  What is the Supreme Law of the Land?

61.  How many states are required for the Ratification of the Constitution?

62.  Fill in the topic for each article of the Constitution:

Article I:

Article II:

Article III:

Article IV:

Article V:

Article VI:

Article VII:

A Republic

63.  What form of government did the Founding Fathers establish with the Constitution?

64.  According the James Madison in Federalist No. 10, what “…have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”?

65.  Who said, “We may define a republic to be…a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices…for a limited period….”?

66.  According to Article 4 Section 4 of the United States Constitution, what form of government are states required to be?

A Federal System of Government

67.  What is the distribution of power between state governments and a central government?

68.  What cannot exercise whatever powers it chooses in the name of the people and can only exercise those powers that are granted to it in the Constitution?

A Limited Government

69.  Who said, “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master.”?

70.  What political principle divides powers among different branches of government?

71.  What is a system for making sure that one department of government does not exceed its bounds?

72.  According to the Founding Fathers, what is created to protect natural rights?

73.  What limits the power of the federal government?

74.  According to Alexander Hamilton, how should all unconstitutional legislation be considered?

75.  Who said, “In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man; but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”?