The American Democracy, 10th Edition (Patterson)Chapter 2:
Constitutional Democracy: Promoting Liberty and Self GovernmentChapter Outline
- Before the Constitution: The Colonial and Revolutionary Experiences
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Articles of Confederation
- A Nation Dissolving
- Negotiating Toward a Constitution
- The Great Compromise: A Two-Chamber Congress
- The Three-Fifths Compromise: Issues of Slavery and Trade
- A Strategy for Ratification
- The Ratification Debate
- The Framers' Goals
- Protecting Liberty: Limited Government
- Grants and Denials of Power
- Using Power to Offset Power
- Separated Institutions Sharing Power: Checks and Balances
- Shared Legislative Powers
- Shared Executive Powers
- Shared Judicial Powers
- The Bill of Rights
- Judicial Review
- Providing for Self-Government
- Democracy versus Republic
- Limited Popular Rule
- Altering the Constitution: More Power to the People
- Jeffersonian Democracy: A Revolution of the Spirit
- Jacksonian Democracy: Linking the People and the Presidency
- The Progressives: Senate and Primary Elections
- Constitutional Democracy Today
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