your textbook to decide if a statement is true or false.
Write T or F in the blank, and if a statement is false, rewrite it correctly
on the line.
1. Ideas and thinkers of the past influenced the creation of the
U.S. Constitution.
2. The ideas of John Locke influenced the Framers of the Consti-
tution in specifying and dividing the powers of government.
3. Federalism is the sharing of power between the federal and
state governments.
4. Under the Constitution, states had the power to regulate trade
within their borders.