The deficiencies of the Articles of Confederation include all the following except:
The Constitution’s primary means for achieving its goal of c…
The Constitution’s primary means for achieving its goal of controlling and distributing power centered on structural considerations.
According to the Federalists, the proposed constitution erec…
According to the Federalists, the proposed constitution erects:
Originalism, as an interpretive methodology, utilizes canons…
Originalism, as an interpretive methodology, utilizes canons of construction outside the operative legal text in addition to the operative legal text itself.
The Constitutional Convention failed to achieve the purpose…
The Constitutional Convention failed to achieve the purpose for which it was convened.
Originalism, as an interpretive methodology, presupposes leg…
Originalism, as an interpretive methodology, presupposes legal outcomes.
James Madison, known as the Father of the Constitution, favo…
James Madison, known as the Father of the Constitution, favored democracy as a political system.
According to Critical Legal Studies, words in legal texts fu…
According to Critical Legal Studies, words in legal texts function as mechanisms of oppression.
According to Madison factions arise because they are “sown ….
According to Madison factions arise because they are “sown . . .”
In dividing federal executive and legislative power, the Fra…
In dividing federal executive and legislative power, the Framers drew upon classical notions of the One, the Few, and the Many.