AP Gov Ch 2 Notvocab
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| show | Great Britain needed funds to pay off the debt from the French and Indian War and/or King George III wanted to assert royal authority in the colonies
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| What were 27 of the 32 paragraphs in the Declaration of Independence focused on? | show 🗑
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| What is a nation's basic law, creating political institutions, assigning powers, and possibly guaranteeing rights to people? | show 🗑
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| show | Benjamin Franklin
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| Whose work was the "dominant political faith of the American colonies in the second quarter of the eighteenth century" as stated by Clinton Rossiter? | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Standing laws so people know the laws in advance and 2. the Preservation of Property
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| Which political thinker is best associated with social contract theory and promotion of the right to revolution against oppression? | show 🗑
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| Which political thinker is best associated with social contract theory and an argument against political revolution? | show 🗑
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| Which political thinker is best associated with Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances? | show 🗑
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| Which American political thinker is best associated with developing the argument for Federalism? | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | James Madison
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| show | George Washington
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| show | Limited Government
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| Why is the American Revolution known as a "Conservative" Revolution? | show 🗑
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| What was the first operating government for the United States of America? | show 🗑
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| What was the first constitution of the United States of America? | show 🗑
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| What was the primary problem that prevented the Articles of Confederation from working? | show 🗑
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| show | Shay's Rebellion
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| show | The central government could not effectively administer the economy. States coined their own money. States created trade barriers with each other. States began manipulating credit. Small farmers began losing their lands.
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| Name the meetings that led up to the Constitutional Convention. | show 🗑
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| What is another name for the Constitutional Convention? | show 🗑
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| What did the Framers at the Constitutional Convention agree on? | show 🗑
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| show | love of power and love of money
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| Who said, "The most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property"? | show 🗑
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| What do the Framers mean when they use the word "faction"? | show 🗑
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| What did the Framers view as the "principal object of government"? | show 🗑
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| What did the Framers mean by "balanced" government? | show 🗑
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| show | Large States' desire for representation based on population and Small States' desire for equal representation for each state
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| show | Virginia Plan
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| What Constitutional plan favored small states? | show 🗑
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| What Constitutional plan created a bicameral legislature with two different kinds of representation as a compromise for big and little states? | show 🗑
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| What are the three slave compromises in the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| show | The left who should vote for each State to decide
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| Who argued that the Framers were principally motivated to increase their own wealth? | show 🗑
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| show | levy taxes, pay debts, borrow $, coin/regulate $, regulate foreign & interstate commerce, establish bankruptcy law, punish piracy & counterfeiting, create standard wts. & measures, create a postal system, protect copyrights/patents
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| What are some Constitutional prohibitions on the States? | show 🗑
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| show | To avoid having a bad financial relationship with other countries
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| What does the Constitution require the Federal Government guarantee the States? | show 🗑
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| show | States must repect civil court judgements and contracts made in other states.
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| show | 1. prohibits suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and religious qualifications for federal office. 2. Places strict rules for treason. 3. Upholds right to jury trials in criminal cases
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| show | 1. Place most of the government beyond the direct control of the majority. 2. Separate the powers of different institutions. 3. Construct a system of Checks and Balances.
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| show | The President is elected by the Electoral College. - The Supreme Court is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. - The Senate was originally chosen by State Legislatures.
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| show | There are three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Also, Congress is bicameral: the Senate and House of Representatives.
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| show | By declaring their laws or acts unconstitutional
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| How can the Executive check the Legislative branch? | show 🗑
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| show | The President nominates judges.
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| show | The Senate confirms Presidential nominations. Congress can impeach and remove judges. Congress can change the number of Supreme Court Justices (court-packing).
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| show | Congress approves Presidential nominations and controls the budget. Can overcome a veto with a 2/3 supermajority. Can impeach and remove the President.
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| What Supreme Court decision asserted the power of Judicial Review? | show 🗑
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| What term did the Framers prefer for our government over the term democracy? | show 🗑
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| show | Federalists
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| Who were opposed to the ratification of the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| What class of men were identified as likely Federalists? | show 🗑
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| What class of men were identified as likely Anti-Federalists? | show 🗑
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| show | Madison, Jay, Hamilton, John Adams, Washington
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| show | Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason
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| show | To convince New York to ratify the Constitution
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| show | First
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| What Amendment in the Bill of Rights protected personal beliefs? | show 🗑
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| What Amendments in the Bill of Rights protected privacy? | show 🗑
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| What Amendments in the Bill of Rights povides rights as defendants? | show 🗑
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| show | Second
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| show | Fifth
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| show | Ninth
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| show | Tenth
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| show | It was a compromise to get more Anti-Federalists to accept the Constitution.
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| Why did the Federalists believe there was no need for a Bill of Rights? | show 🗑
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| show | 2/3 approval either in the U.S. Congress or a National Constitutional Convention
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| show | 3/4 approval either in the State Legislatures or in State Constitutional Conventions
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| show | 2/3 approval by the U.S. Congress
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| Which proposal method has never been used? | show 🗑
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| show | 3/4 approval by State Legislatures
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| Which ratification method was used once and why? | show 🗑
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| What Article concerns itself with Amendments? | show 🗑
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| show | The Judiciary
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| What is Article I about? | show 🗑
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| What is Article II about? | show 🗑
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| What is Article VII about? | show 🗑
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| show | Article VI
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| show | Article IV
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| What are some examples of Informal Amendments? | show 🗑
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| How many of the 17 Constitutional Amendments after the Bill of Rights have to do with democratization? | show 🗑
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| Which Amendment prohibited racial discrimination of voters? | show 🗑
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| Which Amendment provided women suffrage? | show 🗑
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| show | Twenty-third
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| show | Twenty-fourth
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| Which Amendment lowered the voting age to 18? | show 🗑
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