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Section 4 Guided Reading and Review
Greating the Gonstitution
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A. As You Read
The chart below outlines the initial plans for a constitution and the "bundle of compromises,,
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resulted from the various plans. As you read Section 4, compiete the chart by filling in
the boxes
provided.
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut
Compromise
Three-Fifths
Compromise
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Commerce and
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Slave
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tade
Compromise
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11. Name a group whose interests seem to have been ignored, or even harmed, by the
compromises that created the Constitution.
B. Reviewing K.y Terms
on
a separate sheer of paper, use the key rerm below
in a sentence
that shows the meaning of the term.
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12. Framers
Chapter 2. Section
4
Guided Reading and Review
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Section 5 Guided Reading and Review
Ratifying the Gonstitution
A. As You Read
As you read the section, fili in the following outline by writing supporting details in the form of
answers to questions L-5.
The Fight for Ratification
1.
What were the positions of each side toward ratification?
a. Federalists:
b. Anti-Federalists:
2.
What were the five issues involved in the ratification debate?
a.
b.
d.
3. On u'hat rwo States did the success or failure of ratification depend?
and
Inaugurating the Government
4,
5.
Where was the first nationai capital located?
'S7ho
a.
b.
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became the new nation's
first President and Vice President?
President:
Vice President:
B. Reviewing Key Terms
Identify the following people as either a Federalist or an Anti-Federalist. On the spaces provided,
write an A for Anti-Federalist or an F for Federalist.
6. James Madison
7. Patrick Henry
8. Alexander Hamilton
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Chapter 2, Section
5
Guided Reading and Review
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Section 1 Guided Reading and Review
The Six Basic Frinciples
A. As You Read
As you read Section 1, fill in a description of each of the six basic principles of the Constitution,
shown in the chart below.
Popular Sovereignry
Limited Government
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Judicial Revieu,
Federalism
B. Reviewing Key Terms
Complete each sentence by writing the correct term in the blank provided.
7.The idea that government and its officers are always subject
to-
never
above-the law
is
described as the
l
expresses the concept that
8. The principle of
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government must be conducted according to constitutional principles.
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9. Judicial review is the power
to declare a government action that violates some provision of
A)
the Constitution to be
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10. The
is the brief
introduction that begins the Constitution.
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Guided Reading and
Review
Chapter 3, Section
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CLASS
DATE
Section 2 Guided Reading
Formal Amendment
A. As You Read
As you read Section 2, answer the following questlons'
Formal Amendment Process
1.
'tJfhat
are the
two steps involved in the first method of amending the Constitution?
a.
b.
2.
What are the two steps involved in the second method of amending the Constitution?
a.
b.
3.
Constitution?
\X/hat are the rwo steps involved in rhe third method of amending the
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b.
4.
What are the rwo steps involved in the fourth method of amending the constitution?
a,
b.
The 27 Amendments
5.
'S7hat
6.
\7hich amendments were results of the Civil War?
is the Bill of Rights?
f
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B. Reviewing Key Terms
of the term'
Use each key term below in a sentence that reflects the meaning
7.
amendment
8.
formal amendment
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Guided Reading and
Review
Chapter 3, Section 2