constitution study guide

7/23/2019 Constitution Study Guide

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Constitution Study Guide

I. Key Concepts: 

• The Enlightenment• Conditions leading to the Constitution• sovereignty and power• federalism• characteristics of the Constitution• financial issues of the new country

II. Terms , Brinkley, p. 159-172Alexander Hamilton James MadisonRole of George WashingtonEdmund RandolphVirginia Plan

William Paterson and the New Jersey Plan Grand CompromiseBaron de MontesquieuDavid HumeFederalists and Anti-FederalistsFederalist papersBill of RightsThe Treaty processRepublicans

“enlightened few”Hamilton’s fiscal policies“Report on Manufactures”Assumption bill

Brinkley, p. 172-178Whiskey Rebellion

“nation within a nation”Citizen Genet Jay’s TreatyPinckney’s TreatyElection of 1796XYZ AffairQuasi WarAlien and Sedition Acts

IV. Broad understandings

1 To what extent did the Constitution create a framework for freedom and liberty?

Who was left out of the Founders vision for the U.S.?

2 How did the structure of the Constitution create limited government and a check onthe power of government?

web sites:U. S. Founding Documents - http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/ 

Text and scanned versions of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the

Federalist Papers.

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention,

1774-1789 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html