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Ch2_AP_GOV_Vocab
Edwards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| amendment | change in |
| 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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