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Questions for Bardes, et al., Ch. 2

1. What would be the effects of overturning Roe v. Wade? What was decided in Gonzales v. Carhart in 2007 (Hint: Do an Internet search)?

2. What is the twofold significance of the Mayflower Compact according to the authors? What was the significance of the First Continental Congress? How about the Second Continental Congress?

3. What are natural rights? What is their importance to the Declaration of Independence? Who were the Republicans of the late colonial era? What is a unicameral legislature?

4. What is a confederation? When were the Articles of Confederation finally ratified? What were the accomplishments of the Articles according to the authors? What were some of the weaknesses of the Articles? What do the authors consider the most fundamental weakness? What was the importance of Shay’s rebellion?

5. What state refused to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention? What were the factions represented in Philadelphia? What states favored the Virginia Plan? What states favored the New Jersey Plan? What was the Great Compromise? What was the Madisonian Model? What Federalist Paper of Madison speaks of checks and balances?

6. What were the five fundamental principles of the Constitution according to the authors?

7. What were the advantages of the Federalists over the Anti-Federalists? What was an advantage of the Anti-Federalists? What does Federalist #10 deal with? What were the major arguments of the Anti-Federalists? Why was a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution? What recent amendment was proposed at the same time as the Bill of Rights? Did the Bill of Rights as originally adopted limit the states?

8. What are the two ways to propose amendments and the two ways to ratify amendments to the Constitution? What are other ways to change the Constitution?