JAHKMLHS Topic 2 The Beginnings of American Government
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Albany Plan of Union | show 🗑
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amend | show 🗑
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show | those persons who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1787–1788
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apt | show 🗑
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show | not restrained or limited in the exercise of power
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arsenal | show 🗑
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show | plan of government adopted by the Continental Congress after the American Revolution; established "a firm league of friendship" among the States but allowed few important powers to the Federal Government
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show | An American author, inventor, diplomat, and legislator; proposed the Albany Plan of Union that foresaw the benefits of colonial unity; signed the Declaration of Independence and helped frame the Constitution
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bicameral | show 🗑
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show | a French political philosopher of the Enlightenment whose major work, The Spirit of Laws, was a major contribution to political theory--separation of powers
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show | In 1628, when Charles I asked Parliament for more money in taxes, Parliament refused until he agreed to sign the Petition of Right.
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charter | show 🗑
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show | an agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention to protect slaveholders; it denied Congress the power to tax the export of goods from any State and, for twenty years, denied Congress the power to act on the slave trade
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Confederation | show 🗑
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Connecticut Compromise | show 🗑
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Daniel Shays | show 🗑
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delegates | show 🗑
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due process | show 🗑
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show | a tax on imports
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show | this document written in 1689 and designed to prevent abuse of power by English monarchs forms the basis for much in American government and politics today
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envoy | show 🗑
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Federalists | show 🗑
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Framers | show 🗑
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show | clause requiring that each State accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State
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show | the charter which this man requested for a royal charter to establish a colony where he could practice his religion was granted to his son Cecil
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show | framed Virginia's Declaration of Rights, which served as a model for Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence
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show | President of the Constitutional Convention and commander-in-chief of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War
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Glorious Revolution | show 🗑
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show | ceremonial introduction into office
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James Wilson | show 🗑
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Jamestown | show 🗑
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show | The Social Contract, expresses his idea that humans are essentially free, but the progress of civilization has substituted subservience and dependence to others for that freedom
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John Adams | show 🗑
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John Jay | show 🗑
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show | English philosopher whose theories about the natural rights of man, the social contract, the separation of church and state, religious freedom, and liberty influenced the American and French revolutions.
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jurisdiction | show 🗑
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King George II | show 🗑
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show | signed the Magna Carta
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landmark | show 🗑
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show | to impose, to collect by legal authority
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limited government | show 🗑
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show | guarantees of such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law (protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, or property).
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New Jersey Plan | show 🗑
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show | document prepared by Parliament and sighed by King Charles I o England in 1628; challenged the idea of the divine right of kings and declared that even the monarch was subject to the laws of the land
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show | a government that exists only with the consent of the governed
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presiding officer | show 🗑
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show | organized by a proprietor (a person to whom the king had made a grant of land)
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show | fewest number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business; majority
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show | formal approval or final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty
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representative government | show 🗑
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Roger Sherman | show 🗑
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show | A Founding Father; leader in Boston politics through his writing; delegate to the First and Second Continental congresses and helped draft the Declaration of Rights.
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show | series of confrontations between debtor farmers and State government authorities in western Massachusetts in 1786–1787
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show | draftsman of the Declaration of Independence
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show | an agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be added into the population of a State for representation in Congress
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show | having the approval or consent of all
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show | having one house
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venture | show 🗑
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veto | show 🗑
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Virginia Plan | show 🗑
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William and Mary of Orange | show 🗑
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William Blackstone | show 🗑
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William Penn | show 🗑
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