Chap. 7 Blog Questions

1) What are the three branches of government and what are the powers of each?
The Legislative Branch makes the law. 
The Executive branch makes sure that these laws and policies are carried out.
The Judicial Branch is the court system that settles disputes between the states. 


2) How can these branches check and balance each other?
Both the house and the senate must pass a bill for it to become a law. The president can check Congress by vetoing the bill. However, Congress can then check the president by overriding the veto, To override a veto, two-thirds of the members of both houses of Congress must vote for the bill.  

3) What were the compromises to the constitution?
~A two house legislature: the House of Representatives and the Senate. The number of Representatives was to be determined by the population of the state and each state had to people representing them in the Senate.
~Counting each enslaved person as three-fifths of a free person for both taxation and representation. (They couldn't actually vote though, even after they were considered free.)  
~Can't use the word slavery 
~Election of the president


4) Who wrote the Federalist papers?
John Jay
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton. 

5) What was the Bill of Rights? Why did some states demand its inclusion before they ratified the constitution? 
The Bill of Rights made sure the government didn't abuse their power. Some states demanded a Bill of Rights because they didn't want the central government to become so powerful that it was like having another king, which was the whole reason for fighting in the Revolutionary War.


6) What were the anti-federalists main fears about the constitution?
The main argument was that the new constitution would take away the American people's liberties and that the central government would become so powerful that they would forget about the states, forget about the people's voices, and favor the rich over the common folk. Basically, the anti-federalists thought that the new constitution would give the central government to much power. 


What were the Federalists about?
A strong central government.