Exam 2: The Founding and the Constitution

It is possible that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia would never have taken place at all if not for a single event that occurred soon after the 1786 meeting of state delegates in Annapolis,Maryland.This event was:

The issue of counting slaves for purposes of representation was settled by the:

The question of counting slaves for purposes of representation was ultimately resolved by counting:

The Constitution grants the Supreme Court the unconditional right to grant reprieves and pardons.

Why might the delegates to the Constitutional Convention reject a motion to include a bill of rights in the Constitution?

Except for one,all of the amendments that have been added to the Constitution have passed in:

Federal judges are given lifetime appointments.

No principle was more widely shared among the framers of the American Constitution than the principle espoused by Baron de Montesquieu that:

Which state did NOT send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia?

The proposal offered by the smaller states during the Constitutional Convention that argued each state should be equally represented in the new regime regardless of its population was known as the:

In what ways did the new constitution represent an improvement over the Articles of Confederation?

Daniel Shays,a former army captain,led a mob in a rebellion against the Massachusetts government in order to:

The Boston Tea Party set into motion a cycle of provocation and retaliation that,in 1774,resulted in the convening of an assembly of delegates from all parts of the colonies called the:

Under the Constitution as originally passed,the members of the Senate were to be appointed by the state legislatures.

In the chain of events leading up to the American Revolution,the radical forces were permitted to expand their political influence because the colonial elites were split by:

The state legislature of Georgia,known as the Georgia General Assembly,with its upper chamber (the Georgia Senate)and lower chamber (the Georgia House of Representatives),is an institution that exemplifies the principle of:

Under the American Constitution,the part of elected government designed to be directly responsible to the people was the:

Article I of the U.S.Constitution provides for the:

The agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention to adopt the proposal that gave each state an equal number of senators regardless of population,but linked representation in the House of Representatives to population,became known as the:

The Constitution grants the president the unconditional power to accept ambassadors from other countries.