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16 Cards in this Set
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Those who favored a strong central government and the new constitution.
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Federalist
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Those who opposed a strong central government and the new constitution.
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Anti-Federalist
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What is the pseudonym Alexander Hamilton first used?
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Caesar
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What pseudonyms did the Anti-Federalist use?
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Montezuma and Philadelphiensis
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The Constitution incorporated the principle of...
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limited government
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Limited government means...
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that the government can do only what the people allow it to do through exercise of a duly developed system of laws.
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What do the Constitutional Articles I, II, and III indicate?
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They indicate exactly what the national government can do.
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The first nine amendments to the Constitution list...
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the ways in which the government cannot limit certain individual freedoms.
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Implicitly, the principle of limited government rest on the concept of...
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popular sovereignty
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Who forms the government and decides on the powers that it can exercise?
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The people
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If the government exercises powers beyond those granted to it by the Constitution, it is...
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acting illegally
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The idea that no one is above the law, including government officers, is often called...
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the rule of law
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A basic principle of govenrment that requires both those who govern and those who are governed to act in accordance with established law.
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Rule of Law
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_______ was the solution to the debate over whether the national government or the states should have ultimate sovereignty.
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Federalism
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The Constitution gave to the national government...
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significant powers--powers that it had not had under the Articles of Confederation.
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What takes precedence over conflicting state laws?
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The U.S. Constitution
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