Constitutional Government & Its Limits — Chapter overview · U.S. & New York History: Indigenous Nations to Reconstruction, Grade 7
Five focused units, a three-session source workshop, chapter review, and chapter quiz.
Chapter question
How did a new framework combine capacity, restraints, representation, and exclusions?
Units in this chapter
- Unit 4.1 · From the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution
I can name the specific powers the Articles withheld from Congress.
- Unit 4.2 · Federalism, Three Branches & Checks on Power
I can describe what each branch does and the lever it holds on the others.
- Unit 4.3 · Representation, Constitutional Compromises & Exclusion
I can explain the Virginia and New Jersey plans and whose interests each served.
- Unit 4.4 · The Bill of Rights & Constitutional Change
I can explain why Federalists first opposed a bill of rights.
- Unit 4.5 · Ratification Debate: Power, Rights & New York
I can state the main Anti-Federalist objections and the Federalist answers.