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- Federalist Papers
- Essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay supporting the Constitution and ratification of it
- The Great Compromise was _________________
- Agreement to have a bicameral legislature, one house based on state's population and the other on equal representation for each state
- Connecticut Compromise
- another name for the Great Compromise
- Three Fifths Compromise
- Agreement that states could count three fifths of their slave population in determining number of representatives
- Framers guaranteed "Fragmentation of Power" by what three methods in the Constitution?
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Federation - states kept many powers
Separation of Powers - 3 branches of gov't
Checks & Balances - overlapping powers - Constitutional framers could have been influenced by what Indian tribe?
- Iriquois
- Framers emphasized political theories, but also insisted on ________________ rights
- Economic rights
- The Constitution can be changed by what three methods?
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Amendments
Judicial interpretation
Political Practice - What are examples of Political Practice having an effect on our form of government under the Constitution?
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Committee system in Congress, or
Establishment of Departments and Cabinet - Emancipitation Proclamation
- By Lincoln, said slaves were to be freed (did NOT include right to vote)
- Importance of Gettysburg Address
- Lincoln felt Constitution had abandoned principles of equality, raised status of Declaration of Independence
- Reconstruction Amendments served what purpose for Lincoln?
- Added principles of equality from the Declaration into the Constitution
- What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
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13 - abolished slavery
14 - gave all born or naturalized in US status as citizens
15 - said all citizens could vote (did NOT include females) - Effect of Great Depression and New Deal on our government processes?
- Brought Supreme Court into prominence as it ruled several New Deal laws were unconstitutional
- What happened to our government under Roosevelt and the New Deal?
- Great increase in size of government, an example of "political practice" as a change to the Constitution
- "Rendition" in relation to our government
- We cannot torture people, and terrorists won't confess, so we send them to other countries where they can be tortured to get information
- What is the "Watergate"? (NOT the Watergate Scandal, the name itself)
- An appartment building near the Kennedy Center in D.C.
- Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings. The Supreme Court had to rule on whether he should. What was their constitutional problem?
- If they ruled that he should and he refused, they had no power to make him give up the tapes; would be seen as powerless.
- The Watergate tapes proved what about Nixon's involvement in the break-in to the Democratic Party Offices?
- He had NOT ordered it, but became aware of it and tried to cover it up
- First Constitution of the U.S.
- Articles of Confederation
- Shay's Rebellion
- Uprising by farmers in Massachusetts, wealthy feared "mob rule"
- Why did Framers of Constitution want Indirect Democracy?
- to avoid mob rule, or mischief of factions