Constitutional Game Quiz

americans meant by liberty three things:

the central problem of republican theory is

the term xxx was first used to designate opponents of the crown during the reign of Charles 1.

the minister who effectively ran the English government during the reigns of George 1 and george 2 was

the reclamation of English lost liberties began with the signing of

The story of liberty lost and regained is called

Country republicans were taught by XXX that the people must be vigilant in defense of their liberties.

History for country republicans moved xxxx , not along a straight path of progess

the author who for county republicans was the authority on the question of associational size was

Representation works better in small republics for two reasons:

One sure measure of liberty’s demise is

Court republicans would guard liberty through XXX rather than through the civic virtue of a vigilant populace.

Besides government, Madison argued, another source of oppression is

Madison thought that the solution to majority tyranny lay in_______ can provide.

Madison conceived that role of government as

Following Yorktown and the treaty of Paris, the last british forces left _____ in December 1783

the british representative at the peace talks in Paris was ?

Under the Treaty of Paris, America's western boundary was?

___were the hardest hit by the recession that followed independence

Congress raised revenues by requisitioning contributions from the states, borrowing from foreigners and _________

Congress moved from Philadelphia eventually to New York because?

The spanish Ambassador responsible for negotiating a trade agreement with the Congess was _____; his american counterpart, secretary of Foreign Affairs was_______

The executive body (more or less) of the congress under the articles of confederation was called the ?

New England land speculators in the Northwest territories were organized as the ?

The country's first superintendent of Finance under the Articles of Confederation was?

The _____ adopted unicameralism in imitation of the Penn constitution of 1776

The advisory body that constrained and encumbered the Virginia governor was called the?

The Massachusetts legislature was called the

The three vices which james madison charged against the state governments (in his essay "vice of the Political System of the United States") were:

the event in Massachusettes which convinced many of the need for a constitutional convention was

Two important people who dissented from the building belief that anarchy threatened the country were ?

For John Locke, supremacy belongs to the ________, while sovereignty belongs to ______

Locke calls the power of war and peace the____

Sparta retained her liberty longer than other republics because?

An empire, says Montesquieu, is too big to rule monarchically. An example he gives of a ruler who divided his empire is ______. two examples given of rulers whose empires were divided after their deaths are_____.

The______, says Montesquieu, is the means by which small states can defend themselves.

Montesquieu claims that every government has a distinctive objective in addition to preservation. Public tranquility is the objective that defines________.

The people's share in government should, according to Montesquieu, be confined to____

James Harrington is faulted for building in his________ a _______(i.e., imaginary liberty) when he could have build a __________ (i.e., real liberty using materials from the British constitution)

Because "the legislative power is naturally and necessarily sovereign and supreme over the executive," the latter, in order to defend itself, must be given:

The form of government likely to rise up in consequence of progress in arts, sciences and commerce is __________

the greek historian who first spoke of mixed government was________

In ______, no man will labor for himself when he can get others to labor for him.

adams uses the expression_____ to identify that proportion of society set apart by talent, death, and birth.

Because "the legislative power is naturally and necessarily sovereign and supreme over the executive," the later, in order to defend itself, must be given.

there are two ways to control parties, says adams, by ________________ or by__________

Failure to defend the minority by checks and balances means that  _________ must be given to the minority

Madison defines faction as a number of citizen acting in a manner adverse to___________ or to_________

Madison identifies two ways of curing factions:______________

Says Madison: Liberty is to faction what ____________

Masison contends that the most common source of faction is_________

Madison defines a pure democracy as ___________. He d defines a republic as a popular government in which the system of __________is in place

Reflecting on the principle of separation of powers in Federalist #51, Madison argues that the surest way to guarantee the independence of the several branches of government is

According to madison, minority faction is solved by the _____

Given the fact, says Madison, that governments are not for angles but for men, and are not run by angels but by men, the difficulty lies in this:

_________is what distinguishes a free government from an arbitatry government

in a republic the manners, sentiments, and interests of the people should be_______

Despotisms and monarchies use________ to enforce the laws