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The Articles of Confederation required ____ states to sign.
13
More than 10,000 constitutional amendments have been proposed with only ___ passing b a 2/3 vote in House in Senate.
33
Amendments are the product of _______ not conflict.
consensus
Which amendment eliminated poll tax?
24th
Georgia was the first state to…
Allow 18 year olds to vote
Four ways to change an amendment:
Reverse, reform, repair, repeal
Where do new amendments come from?
Social protest, activism, shear political will, and preempted large social protest
___ amendments have got 2/3 vote in the HOR and Senate but failed in States
6
The Constitution has been amended ___ times.
27
The Articles of Confederation…
was never amended
The Constitution of 1787 owes it existence to…
the failure of its predecessor (Articles of Confederation)
Madison is the father of the…
Bill of Rights
George Washington confided to Abraham Baldwin that…
he did not expect the Constitution to last more than 20 years
What did George Washington urge at his farewell speech?
To stay away from two party systems.
No nation in the 18th century has a ______ executive.
non hereditary
The two Presidents elected by the House of Representatives:
John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Which state has the most constitutions?
Louisiana
Which state has a unicameral state legislature?
Nebraska
Who said “You campaign in poetry but govern in prose”?
Mario Cuomo
Who said “Government is not the solution to out problems, it is the problem”?
Ronald Reagan
How many states have no term limits for their governor?
14
What was the Philadelphia Munity?
An anti-government protest by unpaid militia.
What was the last formal request of the Articles of Confederation from the 13 states?
$3,800,000
Which state gave $663 to the Articles of Confederation?
Pennsylvania
Which two delegates never missed a day of the Convention?
George Washington and James Madison
Who created the electoral college?
James Madison
What is the fatal flaw of the electoral college?
No one state can determine nor direct what the other states will do.
How many delegates were summoned the Constitutional Convention?
55
James Madison wrote ___ of the Federalist Papers.
29
Which college did James Madison attend?
Princeton
Who was against the closed doors of the Constitutional Convention saying “Nothing can justify this”?
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia limits its governor to…
one four year term.
How many cabinet members have been impeached?
1
What percentage of South Carolina's population was slaves at the time of the Constitutional Convention?
53
Who published the first daily newspaper in 1784 - The Pennsylvania Packet.
John Dunlap
Whose portrait did Donald Trump have to the left of his desk in his office?
Andrew Jackson
Where was John Jay at the time of the Convention?
Europe
Who was President of the Convention?
George Washington
Who thought that 19 times in 20 the House of Representative will pick the President?
George Mason
Madison lost in…
Philadelphia
Madison won in…
New York
The Conventions most important deals are struck in…
late evenings in taverns.
Who was seen as backstabbers to Madison?
Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Baldwin
What embedded slavery into the Constitution?
The Great Compromise
The House of Representatives was formed with ___ members.
65
What created a bicameral legislature?
3/5 compromise
Slaves were imported until?
1808
Impeachment had been on the table as the most astonishing in which branch of government?
The executive
The wisdom of the Convention was to have a chief executive similar to a _________ in a parliamentary system
prime minister
Who thought the president ought perhaps to have a “quantum of property” worth at least one hundred thousand dollars?
Charles Pickney
How many more slaves were imported between 1788 and 1808?
80,000
Who were the 3 non signers of the Constitution?
Gerry of Massachusetts, Mason of Virginia, and Randolph
The Constitution got ___ signatures out of 41.
38
Who was the first attorney general for George Washington
Edmund Randolph
Where did James Madison views change the most?
On horseback in the hills and mountains.
Why did Thomas Jefferson think he would be impeached?
Louisiana Purchase
What states were dead set against debt setting?
Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and Maryland
George W Bush used his first veto is what year?
2005
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