1. Why did the Articles of Confederation
fail? Was it necessary to change the Articles of Confederation and
write a new constitution for the new nation of the United States
at the time?
2. What is a federal system? What are some of the major differences
between a federal system and a confederation?
3. What are some of the major powers of each of the three branches
of the U.S. government? How are the three branches supposed to check
and balance each other?
4. What is the Bill of Rights? Do you think that it was necessary
to write the Bill of Rights explicitly into the U.S. Constitution?
5. What are the two political parties in the United States? Do you
think they are fundamentally different?
