Unit 3: Articles of Confederation and Constitution

A government that is legally restricted in its use of power

• federalism

• popular sovereignty

• limited government

• restrictionism

The people exercise their governmental power by voting representatives into office

• federalism

• republicanism

• popular sovereignty

• limited government

A system that allows each branch of a government to amend (change) or veto (reject)

acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from having too much power

• checks and balances

• popular sovereignty

• individual rights

• separation of power

A system of government in which power is shared among the

federal (central) government and the states

• checks and balances

• indivdual rights

• states rights

• federalism

divides governmental power among three branches

• federalism

• separation of powers

• individual rights

• checks and balances

Government gets its authority from the people.

People have the right to alter or abolish their government.

• checks and balances

• individual rights

• popular sovereignty

• separation of powers

Personal liberties (freedoms) and privileges

guaranteed to U.S. citizens by the Bill of Rights

• individual rights

• popular sovereignty

• checks and balances

• republicanism

Federalists believed...

• a stronger federal

  government was needed to correct the mistakes made in the Articles of Confederation.

• the power of

  the government should be with the states.

Anti-Federalists believed...

• the power of

  the government should be with the states.

• a stronger federal

  government was needed to correct the mistakes made in the Articles of Confederation.

Alexander Hamilton

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist