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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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