REVOLUTION AND CONSTITUTION REVIEW
Causes of the American Revolution
Albany Plan of Union
French and Indian War 1763
Mercantilism
salutary neglect
Navigation Acts
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
No taxations without representation/virtual representation
Great Awakening
American Revolution 1775-1783
1770 Boston Massacre
1773 Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts 1774
Continental Congresses
Tories/Loyalists
Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
Declaration of Independence 1776
Who wrote?
Why?
Battles
Lexington and Concord
Saratoga
Yorktown
Treaty of Paris 1783
List effects of the American Revolution
Articles of Confederation 1781-1789
Strengths and Weaknesses
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
State Governments
Shay’s Rebellion 1786
Constitutional Convention 1787
“Father of the Constitution”
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Compromises of the Constitution
Great Compromise (Connecticut Plan)
3/5 Compromise
Commerce Compromise
Presidency Compromise
Ratification
Anti-Federalists
Federalists
Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
American Government
According to the Preamble of the Constitution, who is creating it?
Name an example of each type of power under federalism:
delegated
implied
denied
concurrent
reserved
How is the term of a Supreme Court Justice different from other federal officeholders?
Identify:
Veto
Unwritten constitution
Filibuster
Cloture
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Census
Impeachment
Electoral College
Why does the Constitution require a census every ten years?
What impact does the census have on the Electoral College?
What can’t the president do?
Define judicial review.
Marbury v. Madison 1803
How is the process of amending the Constitution an example of federalism?
12. What rights were considered the most important in the Bill of Rights? (as seen by how
much attention is given.)
Define “due process of law”
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FEDERALIST PAPER #10 ABRIDGED The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection From the
New York Packet. Friday, November 23, 1787. [written by James Madison]
AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately
developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction…...
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, …., who are united and actuated by some common impulse of
passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of
the community. . . . . The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. . . .
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them
all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. . . .
The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is
only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS. …..
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting
of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for
the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the
whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check
the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies
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. …..
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different
prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. …The two great points of difference between a
democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of
citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over
which the latter may be extended. ……In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a
republican remedy for the diseases most incident to … government. PUBLIUS.
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