Assignment - Use the graphs, maps, charts, images, caption, and sidebars in Chapter 2 (Constructing a Government) of your textbook to answer the flowing questions. Complete sentences are not required, but please be description enough that your answer makes sense. Answer must be written directly underneath each question in order to receive credit for the assignment.
1. What state has the MOST people per Senate seat?
2. Which state has the HIGHEST number of people per House seat?
3. What state has the FEWEST people per elector?
4. What SEVEN states are tied with the fewest number of electors?
5. What did the Great Compromise do that resulted in small states having more electoral votes per capita in presidential elections than large states?
6. What benefit do small states such as South Carolina and North Dakota receive as a result of federal tax and spending policies?
7. Which branch of government regulates interstate commerce?
8. What TWO powers are granted to the judicial branch besides reviewing lower-court decisions?
9. Federalists generally belonged to one of these THREE groups.
10. What system of government did the Antifederalists favor?
11. What branch of government did the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Amendments place limits on?
12. What group was granted voting rights under the 23rd Amendment?
13. What was the purpose of the 22nd Amendment?
14. This was the only amendment proposed and adopted in the same year.
15. Which amendment had the longest gap between the year it was proposed and the year it was adopted?
Length: 2 sentence for each question.