Informal Methods
Congress passes laws to expand constitutional provisions.
What is congressional legislation?
Led a rebellion because Massachusetts farmers were losing their land.
Means the absence of intolerance, bigotry, and superstition.
What is reason?
Called for representation based on each state's population.
What is the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan?
Belief that people are self centered and selfish.
What is human nature?
What is executive action?
Believed that people are born with the right to "life, liberty, and property"
Laws that regulate human society and can be discovered by human reason.
What are natural laws?
Called for unicameral legislature.
What is the New Jersey plan?
Society is divided between the few wealthy and majority of people without property.
What is political conflict?
Power of the Supreme Court to determine if Congress is acting in accordance to the constitution.
What is a Judicial decision?
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Says that the discovery of laws of government would improve society.
What is social progress?
Proposed by Roger Sherman and William Johnson.
What is the Connecticut plan?
The preservation of property.
What is the purpose of government?
What are political parties?
Said that the ideal government separated power amongst three branches.
Who is Charles de Montesquieu?
What is liberty?
Called for bicameral legislature.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Government should be limited.
What is the nature of government?
The president has the power to nominate federal judges.
What are unwritten traditions?
Wrote a social contract discussing that power should be with the people and not a ruler.
What is toleration?
What is the Connecticut plan?
Limited government.
What is the nature of government?