Exam 2: The Founding and the Constitution

Describe and analyze the conflicts and compromises that occurred during the drafting of the Constitution. What was the conflict between the large and small states, and how did the Great Compromise resolve it? What was the nature of the conflict regarding slavery during the Philadelphia Convention? How did the Three-fifths Compromise resolve this conflict?

Which of the following statements about the House and the Senate is false?

The Virginia Plan of the Constitutional Convention proposed a system of representation in the national legislature that was based upon

Which of the following was a ramification of the Three-Fifths Compromise?

How many amendments are there to the U.S. Constitution?

Why was the Declaration of Independence a remarkable philosophical statement for its time?

Which constitutional principle of the United States has been most frequently imitated by other nations?

What is the term length of a member of the House of Representatives?

The Constitution expressly gave the Supreme Court the power of judicial review over Congress and the president.

The Virginia Plan would have created a federal legislature where representation was based solely on the population of each state.

Whose "political gospel" inspired the framers to adopt the concept of the separation of powers?

If a person believes that the Constitution should not be amended by judges and that judges should adhere closely to the document's text when deciding cases, this person believes in

The most important political value for the framers of the Constitution was

Colonial protesters of the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act rallied around what famous political slogan?

Each of the following was an Antifederalist except

The Declaration of Independence was the United States' first governing constitution.

In order to signify that the enumerated powers were meant to be a source of strength to the national government and not a limitation on it, the Founders

As a constitution, the Articles of Confederation were concerned primarily with

The most common method of passing an amendment to the Constitution is

How did the Founders attempt to reassure citizens that their views would be represented in the new government created by the Constitution?