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Our first form of government was the?

Articles of Confederation

The biggest problem with the Articles of Confederation was?

Weak national government

A big financial weakness of the new government was?

No power to tax

Congress also could not _____ commerce.

Regulate

Regardless of the size of the state, each state only had ____vote?

One

The Articles lacked what two branches of the government?

Executive and Judicial

IN our new government the___and the ____were to share power.

State and Federal Governments

The Articles provided for no common______?

Currency

Our Constitution can be changed through passing_____?

Amendments

How did the delegates to the convention balance competing interests?

Great Compromise

3/5’s Compromise

Made the Federal Government the law of the land.

Balanced power, Equal representation in Senate population in House.

We avoided making a too strong Federal Government by making a_____branch government.

Three

What kept each branch in line?

A system of checks and balances

The Constitution limited the power of the _____Government?

Federal

Two key leaders of the Constitutional Convention were?

George Washington and James Madison

He was elected chairman of the convention?

George Washington

He was the Father of the constitution?

James Madison

People who favored the constitution as it was written were called?

Federalists

The Federalists favored a strong _______ Government?

Federal

The Anti-Federalists wanted a _______of______added to the Constitution before they would sign it.

Bill of Rights

The anti-federalists also wanted the Federal Government to have less?

POWER

The Virginia Declaration of Rights, by George Mason, said?

Our basic rights granted by the constitution cannot be violated by the Federal Government.

The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom stated?

The Government could not support a particular church.

The Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom was written by?

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison used these two things when drafting his Bill of Rights?

Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom