Quiz - Lesson 9: The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union

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When the American colonies won their independence, they knew some kind of union among the states would be necessary. Why?
- Union was needed in order to construct and pay for such internal improvements as roads and bridges.
- Union was needed to avoid the chaos of thirteen sovereign states each with its own foreign policy.
- Americans at the time shared the continent with Spain, France, and Britain, and union was needed for mutual defense in case of attack.
- The general government of a union would be needed to ensure that laws were uniform among the states.
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The Articles of Confederation were designed to establish a government based on the principle of federalism. What is that?
- Political power should be decentralized and held as locally as possible.
- The idea that states should be administrative districts of the general government.
- A synonym of the principle of constitutionalism that rests on judicial review for understanding the fundamental law of the union.
- The idea that citizens should take active part in the government of their communities.
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The nationalists of the time hated the Articles of Confederation because it made it impossible for the general government to get control of the purse and the sword, so they began agitating for a new convention to create the kind of government they wanted. What questionable rhetorical trick did the nationalists play to gain an advantage over the federalists?
- They spread rumors that the American leaders who wanted to keep the Articles were a pack of drunkards and adulterers.
- They began calling themselves federalists, and the federalists they called “anti-federalists.” They did this because federalism was very popular, so they wanted that popularity for their cause, even though cause was not a federalist government.
- They began calling the federalists by titles such as , “my lord,” and offering them lucrative jobs in the new government.
- There were no tricks. They were honest men.
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The Articles of Confederation was our first constitution. What is the crucial fact in understanding American constitutionalism?
- A constitution is the fundamental law of a polity and binding on everyone.
- The option of consenting to amendments to a constitution means it can be binding across generations without violating anyone’s rights.
- Each of the states of the United States is a free, sovereign, and independent nation, and a constitution is understood to be a contract among them establishing an agent of the states, the federal government, for limited and specified purposes and nothing more.
- The just powers of government derive from the consent of the governed.
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