Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist
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- Those who favored a strong central government and the new constitution.
- Federalist
- Those who opposed a strong central government and the new constitution.
- Anti-Federalist
- What is the pseudonym Alexander Hamilton first used?
- Caesar
- What pseudonyms did the Anti-Federalist use?
- Montezuma and Philadelphiensis
- The Constitution incorporated the principle of...
- limited government
- Limited government means...
- that the government can do only what the people allow it to do through exercise of a duly developed system of laws.
- What do the Constitutional Articles I, II, and III indicate?
- They indicate exactly what the national government can do.
- The first nine amendments to the Constitution list...
- the ways in which the government cannot limit certain individual freedoms.
- Implicitly, the principle of limited government rest on the concept of...
- popular sovereignty
- Who forms the government and decides on the powers that it can exercise?
- The people
- If the government exercises powers beyond those granted to it by the Constitution, it is...
- acting illegally
- The idea that no one is above the law, including government officers, is often called...
- the rule of law
- A basic principle of govenrment that requires both those who govern and those who are governed to act in accordance with established law.
- Rule of Law
- _______ was the solution to the debate over whether the national government or the states should have ultimate sovereignty.
- Federalism
- The Constitution gave to the national government...
- significant powers--powers that it had not had under the Articles of Confederation.
- What takes precedence over conflicting state laws?
- The U.S. Constitution