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The Constitution: Why a Republic?

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Public officials nearer to the people would naturally be more responsive and ​_______ to the people.
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​______ power would prevent power being concentrated in any one branch.
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James Madison said that only “a well-instructed people could be permanently a ​_____ people.”
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Whatever the Constitution does not specifically delegate to the national government belongs to the states and the​______.
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A republic is a government of and by the people and their​________.
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The key, they all agreed, was to establish ​_________ limits on power—the power of anyone, and any institution, exercising governmental authority.
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In the summer of 1787, Jefferson and Adams who were serving the country ________.
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In the summer of 1787, these men fashioned a national government divided into three separate parts or​______.
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The ________ branch would execute the laws.
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Whatever the Constitution does not specifically ​______ to the national government belongs to the states and the people.
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The central government would be ​_______ to the powers specifically delegated to it.
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Most of the powers of government would reside with the _____.
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Against all odds, the Americans won their War of​________.
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When republics failed, they were usually replaced by the very worst—most oppressive—forms of​_______.
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The key, they all agreed, was to establish structural limits on power—the power of anyone, and any institution, exercising governmental ​________.
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America’s​_________ Fathers believed they had answers.
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The courts would settle ___________.
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In the summer of 1787, in one of the most creative acts in human history, these men (minus Jefferson and Adams who were serving the country abroad) fashioned a national government divided into three​________ parts or branches.
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The key, they all agreed, was to establish structural limits on​________—the power of anyone, and any institution, exercising governmental authority.
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The key, they all agreed, was to establish structural ​______ on power—the power of anyone, and any institution, exercising governmental authority.
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Public officials nearer to the people would naturally be more ​______ and accountable to the people.
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By “a well-instructed people,” Madison meant above all a people well-_______ about our constitutional liberties and responsibilities.
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__________ would make the laws.
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America's Founding Fathers were willing to risk everything again to create a new, different, and better type of​_____.
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Historically, republics like those in ancient Greece and Rome had always ​________.