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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Direct Democracy came from | Athens |
| Representative Government came from | Rome |
| The type of people who could vote were | White men who owned land |
| Why popular sovereignty is important | Rousseau stated that in order for a social contract to have legitimacy, it must have this. Definition: The principle that the people are the ultimate source of the authority and legitimacy of a government |
| Thomas Hobbes | First introduced the idea that government was a result of a social contract between people and their rulers, argued that social contract was provisional |
| Baron de Montesquieu | Argued that governments should be organized in a way that prevents any one person or group from dominating or oppressing others, separation of powers |
| John Locke | Argued that in the state of nature, all people were equal and enjoyed certain natural rights, or rights that all people have by virtue of being human. |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Extended the social contract still further. He added the idea that for a government formed by a social contract to have legitimacy, it must be based on popular sovereignty, or the general will of the people. |
| Thomas Jefferson | The main writer of the Declaration of Independece |
| James Madison | The Father of the Constitution, the main writer of the Virginia Plan |
| Magna Carta | English document that established the rule of law, set limits on the monarchs power and defined the rights and duties of English Nobles. |
| Declaration of Independence | The document that declared America's independence from Britian |
| The Articles of Confederation was | One of many new plans of government drafted during the war |
| Some of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were | Congress couldn't levy taxes, there was no judicial or legislative branch of government |
| How The Articles of Confederation were fixed under the Constitution | They met at a Constitutional Convention and "fixed" the weaknesses of The Articles of Confederation. |
| The Constitutional Convention | A convention in which delegates from every state (except Rhode Island) met and revised the Articles of Confederation forming the Constitution |
| The Virginia Plan | Proposed to replace the Articles, not to revise them. Proposed a 3 branch government, proposed a bicameral legislature, and representation in the houses would be based on the population of each state. |
| The New Jersey Plan | Proposed to amend the Articles, proposed a unicameral legislature in which all states had equal representation |
| The Great Compromise | Incorporated both the Virginia and New Jersey plan to satisfy both sides of the representation arguement |
| The 3/5ths Compromise | A compromise stating that slaves counted as 3/5ths of a free person, satisfying the south's wanting slaves to count towards their population for representation purposes. This led to the Civil War. |
| Federalists | Supporters of the Constitution, favored the creation of a strong federal government that shared power with the states |
| Anti-Federalists | People who preferred the loose association of states established under the Articles of Confederation |
| Shay's Rebellion | An attack on a federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts which revealed how little Congress could do to hold together the increasingly unstable country |
| Electoral College | Made up of electors from each state who would cast votes to elect the president and vice president |
| Dunlap Broadside | The name of copies that John Dunlap made of the Declaration of Independence. It is estimated that he made 200 of them, but 25 are known to still exist. |
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