Launching the New Ship of State: 181-184



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Here are some questions for your consideration:

1. How are amendments to the Constitution proposed?
2. What is the Bill of Rights? What are some things it/they does/do?
3. What was the point of the 9th Amendment?
4. How did Hamilton plan on reviving public credit and what is assumption?
5. How can debt be a good thing? Put this into the context of your reading.
6. What is a tariff? What is an excise tax?

Ratifying the Constitution: 174-178

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Here are some questions for the nest reading, found on pages 174-178:

1. How did the federalists convince some anti-federalists to support ratification of the constitution? Give an example.
2. Define: The Federalist.
3. Elaborate on the section titles "A Conservative Triumph." What does this mean? Think of question 6 from the last reading.
4. How was the principle of republican government preserved in the United States Constitution?