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P.645 2-8 (Chapter 22 Section 4)
Using Your Notes
Problem
Solution
1. Weak national
1. The delegates created
government
new system of government
2. Delegates distrusted
2. They established
a powerful central
three separate branches
government
3. Anti-federalists feared
3. Congress formally added
that the constitution gave
the Bill of Rights to the
the central government
Constitution
I think that the Bill of Rights represented a compromise because it protected the rights of individual citizens and gave them trust in the constitution and central government.
Main Ideas
Three: The colonists criticized the stamp act as “taxation with representation” because they had never paid taxes directly to the British government before.
Four: John Lockes notion of the contract influenced the American colonists by asserting that people had the right to rebel against unjust rulers.
Five: The colonists were able to achieve victory in the American Revolution because the Americans motivation for fighting was much stronger than the British, the British general made several mistakes, time was on their side, and Louis XVI of France helped them.
Critical Writing & Thinking
Six: It might be important to have a Bill of Rights that guarantees basic rights of citizens to protect their rights and not b able to lose them or have