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Government Test Note
Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Strengths and weaknesses of the articles of confederation | Weak central government, couldn't pay veterans, couldn't controll trade between states, people felt safe, had 13 little republics |
| Georgia constitution of 1777 | Legislature was too powerfull, governers cabnet could veto the governers laws, governers cabnet was chosen by the legislature, governer only had the title but no power, legislature had the power to pardon people |
| James Madison | Father of the constitution |
| Abraham Baldwin | One of the four representatives to the constitutional convention and one of the two sighners from georgia |
| William few | One of the four representatives to the constitutional convention and one of the two sighners from georgia |
| Purpose of the constitutional convention | To revise the articles of the confederation |
| Bill of rights | 1. Freedom of religion and expression (freedom of religion, patition, press, and peacefull protest) 2. Right to bear arms 3. Do not have to quarter soilders in a non-lethal area 4. Searchers need a search warent to search your home. |
| Bill of rights | 5. don't have to testify against self in court 6. Right to a fair and speady trial 7. Fair trial by jury 8. Fair bail and no unusual punishment 9. rights retained by people 10. powers reserved to states and people |
| Checks and balances | a system in which each branch of government can check on the others and make sure they are not abusing their power |
| seperation of powers | the power of government is spread out between 3 branches |
| ellectoral collage | a collage that has representatives for each state and they elect the president |
| 3 branches of government | Legislature (house and senate), Executive (president, vice president, presidential cabnet), Judicial (judges) |
| New Jersey plan | Wanted a senate were each state got equal representaion and votes |
| Virginia plan | wanted a house of representatives were each state got a certain number of votes based on population |
| 3/5 compormise | They didn't know if they should count slaves as part of the population so they said that a slave counted as 3/5 of a man. |
| Great compormise | They took the Vrginia plan and the New Jersy plan and put them together to make the house of representatives and a senate |
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Nick Curtis
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