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The ____________________ was created to protect shipping from piracy on the high seas.

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Most delegates to the Constitutional Convention were slave owners.

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The Founders believed that political authority rested with

The structure of government created in the Constitution functions to protect freedom from the masses.

The original U.S. Constitution includes a property qualification for the right to vote.

The system of checks and balances can be seen as a way to frustrate mass movements.

James Madison stated that "the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than is pronounced by ____________________."

The majority of the Founders at the Constitutional Convention had training in which professional field?

Farmers, shopkeepers, and artisans formed the middle class in 1787.

Discuss the elements of American social class structure at the time of the Constitution.

The Constitution sets up a system where the role of the masses is

Because the government under the Articles of Confederation could not pay off its debt, government bonds lost value.

The Constitutional proposal that each state should have one vote and that the national government should have three separate branches of government was presented by delegates from

Communications and transportation infrastructure were encouraged by the Constitutional right of Congress to build ____________________.

The Virginia Plan called for the United States to have a parliamentary system similar to Britain.

The Constitutional Convention was quick to discard its congressional mandate to "revise the Articles of Confederation."

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention were selected

Republican government is based on the delegation of powers by the people to a small number who

The principle that the courts can invalidate laws by states or the Congress is known as ____________________.

Is the system of checks and balances dependent on a pluralistic politics of many interest groups (or factions as Madison calls them)?