1789 Secretary of State
Thomas Jefferson
Constitution went into effect in
1789
1789 Secretary of Treasury
Alexander Hamilton
1789 secretary of war
Henry Knox
Who wrote the Bill of Rights
James Madison
Bill of Rights ratified in
1791
Amendment 1
Basic Human Rights
Amendment 2
Right to bare arms and to have militia
Amendment 3
No forced quartering of soldiers
Amendment 4
No searches or seizures without a warrant
Amendment 5
Right to not testify against one self
Amendment 6
Right to proper and speedy trial
Amendment 7
Protection from excessive bail or fine
Amendment 9
People have rights not listed in constitution
Amendment 10
Any power not granted to Congress belongs to the states
What act set up the Supreme Court
Judiciary Act of 1789
John Jay
First Supreme Court Chief Justice
Hamiltons Four Part Plan was to…
1) pay all debt in full (so America would not lose credibility)
2) tariff
3) whiskey tax
4) a national bank
Elastic Clause
Loose interpretation of the Constitution was allowed with this clause
1794
Whiskey Rebellion; was put down by Washington
Hamiltonians
Federalists
Jeffersonians
Democratic-Republicans
1793 Washington releases the
Neutrality Proclamation (would not intervene with Britain vs France vs Monarch
Franco-American treaty was made in the
French Revolution
