Analyze the reasons as to what prompted political leaders to act decisively for revising the Articles of Confederation
What will be an ideal response?
In the process, students must go beyond the standard political discussion that entails the weak versus strong central government issue. The new frame of government strengthened central authority well beyond that which was ever provided in the Articles. Better students will write that it was the commercial regulation issue that superseded all political issues and, in fact, provided the rationale for James Madison and others to attempt the establishment of a national republic superimposed on the states. In the end, however, the commercial interests of both the local and national elite were satisfied with the expansion of the political arena, characterized by simultaneous operation of state and national legislatures. Implying protection for elite economic interests, the Federalists successfully argued that political chaos was the alternative to Constitution; thus, the document was ratified.
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The Mughal rule of Akbar in India
a. extended over about ten percent of the subcontinent. b. has been attributed, by some scholars, exclusively to the use of heavily armored cavalry to overwhelm his adversaries. c. was the result of a combination of the use of technology, sieges, and diplomacy. d. collapsed immediately after Akbar's death, when the British East India Co. took over. e. extended to Indonesia.
Hammurabi
What will be an ideal response?
After Ferdinand Marcos fled, the president of the Philippines was
a. Gloria Macapaga-Arroyo b. Corazon Aquino c. Megawati Soekarnoputri d. Imelda Marcos e. Sukarno
By the fifteenth century, the great Italian cities acted as the __________ for much of Europe.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).