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"all men are created equal" "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
Declaration of Independence
60% of slave population of a state counts toward the state's total population.
3/5th Compromise
“I hold it true that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing"
Thomas Jefferson
This branch can check by vetoing bills
Executive
Tallest mountain in Oregon
Mt. Hood
"We the people of the United States..."
US Constitution
Imports would be taxed, not exports
Commerce Compromise
"Let us have government by which our lives, liberty, and property will be secured or let us know the worst at once.”
George Washington
This branch can check by impeaching high ranking officials
Legislative
A cylindrical, reciprocating component in an engine that moves up and down within a cylinder to convert chemical energy from fuel combustion into mechanical motion
Piston
"it becomes necessary to dissolve the politcal bands which have connected us with another"
Declaration of Independence
Daily Double: The state named for the Great Compromise, combining the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan
When asked "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
HE responded, "A republic... if you can keep it."
Benjamin Franklin
This branch can check by granting pardons.
Executive
Name the branch of mathematics named from the arabic word for "reuniting"
algebra
Article II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.
Articles of Confederation
Small states favored this plan based on equal representation.
New Jersey Plan
"Can we forget for whom we are forming a Government? Is it for men, or for the imaginary beings called States?"
James Wilson
Number of states or fraction needed to amend the Constitution
38/ 50 (or 3/4ths)
Tony Hawk's most trick of his career, landed for the first time in the 1999 X Games
the 900
... Secure the blessings to ourselves and our posterity...
US Constitution
The year the Slave Trade would eventually end.
1808
"I have been greatly abused... and had my cattle sold for less than they were worth... I think it is time for us to rise and put a stop to it, and have no more courts, nor sheriffs, nor collectors nor lawyers"
Daniel Shays
Articles of the Constitution describing the power of the 3 branches of government.
Articles I, II, and III
The university in West Texas with "red raiders" as the mascot.
Texas Tech