History

P.645 2-8 (Chapter 22 Section 4)

Using Your Notes

Two:

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 Locke's 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 American's 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