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| Charles A. Beard | A historian who argued that the Founders were largely motivated by the economic advantage of their class in writing the Constitution | ||||
| Constitution | A set of principles | ||||
| Articles of Confederation | The governemnt charter of the states in 1776 until the Constitution in 1787 | ||||
| Constitutional Convention | A meeting of delegates in Phili in 1787 charged with drawing up amendments to the Articles of Confederation | ||||
| Declaration of Independence | A document written in 1776 declaring the colonists' intention to throw off British rule | ||||
| federalism | A constitutional principle reserving separate powers to the national state levels of government | ||||
| Federalist paper | A series of political tracts that explained many of the ideas of the Founders | ||||
| Great Compromise | A constitutional proposal that made membership in one house of Congress proportional to each state's population and membershup in the other equal for all states | ||||
| John Locke | A British philosopher whose ideas on civil government greatly influenced the Founders | ||||
| James Madison | A principal architect of the Constitution who felt that a government powerful enough to encourage virtue in its citizens was too powerful | ||||
| Massachusetts Constitution | A state constitution with clear separation of powers but considered to have produced too weak a government | ||||
| natural rights | Rights of all human beings that are ordained by God | ||||
| New Jersey Plan | A constitutional proposal that would have given each state one vote in a new congress | ||||
| Pennsylvania Constitution | A governing document considering to be hightly democratic yet with a tendency toward tyranny as the result of concentrating all powers in one set of hands | ||||
| separtion of powers | A constitutional principle separating the personnel of the legislative | ||||
| Shay's Rebellion | An armed attempt by Revolutionary War veterans to avoid losing their property by preventing the courst in western Massachusetts from meeting | ||||
| Virginia Plan | A constitutional proposal that the smaller states' representatives feared would give permanent supremacy to the larger states | ||||
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| Antifederalists | Those who opposed giving as much power ot hte national government as the Constitution did | ||||
| bill of attainder | A law that would declare a person guilty of a crime without a trial | ||||
| Bill of Rights | the first 10 amendments of the US Constitution | ||||
| checks and balances | The power of the legislative | ||||
| coalition | An alliance between different interest groups of parties to achieve some political goal | ||||
| confederation | An agreement among sovereign states that delegates certain powers to a national government | ||||
| Constitutional Convention | A meeting of delegates in 1878 to revise the Articles of Confederation | ||||
| ex post facto law | A law that would declare an act criminal after the act was committed | ||||
| faction | a group of people sharing a common interest who seek to influence public policy for their collective benefit | ||||
| Federalists | Supporters of a stronger central governemnt who advocated ratification of the Constitution and then founded a politcal party | ||||
| judicial review | The power of the courts to declare acts of the legislature and of the exectuve inconstitutional and therefore null and void | ||||
| line-item veto | the power of an executive to veto some provisions in an appropriations bill while approving others | ||||
| Madisonian view of human nature | A philosophy holding that accommodating individual self-interst provided a more practical solution to the problem of government than aiming to cultivate virtue | ||||
| republic | a from of democracy in which leaders and representatives are selected by means of popular competitive elections | ||||
| unalienable rights | rights thought to be based on nature and providence rather than on the preference of people | ||||
| writ of habeas corpus | a court order requring police officials to produce an individual held in cusoty and show sufficient cause for that person's detention | ||||
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Created by:
cpregler
on 2010-09-29