Forms of Government
In this type of government, the power is held by the people
What is Democracy?
This was offered by delegates Rogh, Sherman, and Oliver Ellsworth to instate the House and Senate.
What is the Connecticut Plan?
Led the Anti-Federalist Party
Who is Patrick Henry?
Led American army to victory in Revolutionary War as Geeral
Who is George Washington?
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another"
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A government in which elected officials represent the people
What is a republic?
A plan that called for equal state representation
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1787
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Aided in the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765 and wrote the Poor Richard's Almanack
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
"The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other."
What is the Articles of Confederation?
One single, unelected leader holds all the power
What is a Dictatorship?
A plan that called for population based representation
What is the Virginia Plan?
Promised to add amendments to the constitution in order to protect individual liberties
Who are the Federalists? Who is James Madison?
Receives credit for proposing the Virginia Plan
Who is Edmund Randolph?
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed"
What is the Constitution?
A union of states in which the states retain their sovereignty
What is a Confederate government?
This resulted in southern citizens enjoying over-representation of their congressional power.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
The amount of Federalist Papers that were written
What is 85?
Founding Father who was the major author of the Federalist Papers
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort"
What is the Constitution?
A system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature
What is parliamentary?
A plan adopted by seven of the British North American colonies to collect under a more centralized government
What is the Albany Plan?
The solution that Madison offered when creating government
What is divide the legislature into different branches?
Led Shays's Rebellion
Who is Daniel Shays?
"After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal governments you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America"
What is the Federalist Papers?