Which statement would a Federalist most likely have supported during the ratification debate over the Constitution?A.The Constitution needs a bill of rights added to it.B.The Constitution is inferior to the Articles of Confederation.C.The federal government must have authority over the states.D.Only state governments should have the power to collect taxes.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Which statement best explains why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution?A.Most Federalists believed that the Bill of Rights would strengthen the federal government.B.Many Federalists supported adding the Bill of Rights because it created additional branches of government.C.Many Anti-Federalists refused to support the Constitution unless the Bill of Rights was added.D.Most Anti-Federalists wanted to keep the Bill of Rights that was part of the Articles of Confederation.

During the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, Anti-Federalists believed that Blank______.Multiple choice question.the national government was going to have excessive power under the Constitutionthe national government would have insufficient power under the Constitutiona bill of rights for individuals did not belong in the Constitutionto succeed the Constitution must centralize power previously held by the states

What did the Federalists believe?That the states should be able to make whatever laws they want.That there should be a strong national governmentThat the Articles of Confederation should be maintained as the America's form of government.

On what issue did Federalists and Anti-Federalists disagree most strongly?A.Whether slavery should be outlawed in the ConstitutionB.How states should be represented in CongressC.Whether a bill of rights was necessary to include in the ConstitutionD.Whether the Constitution gave the states too much power

Which quotation from the Federalist Papers5 is most clearly a response to the Anti-Federalist argument that politicians within a strong federal government might try to take over the country?A.Yet however requisite a sense of national character may be, it is evident that it can never be sufficiently possessed by a numerous and changeable body.B.Before such a revolution can be effected, the Senate, it is to be observed, must in the first place corrupt itself; must next corrupt the State legislatures; must then corrupt the House of Representatives; and must finally corrupt the people at large.C.And yet it is evident that an assembly elected for so short a term as to be unable to provide more than one or two links in a chain of measures, on which the general welfare may essentially depend, ought not to be answerable for the final result, any more than a steward or tenant, engaged for one year, could be justly made to answer for places or improvements which could not be accomplished in less than half a dozen years.D.Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to be effectual, must relate to operations of that power, of which a ready and proper judgment can be formed by the constituents.