Influences on the US Constitution
This stated that there must be a witness to a crime and a jury trial.
What is the Magna Carta?
True or False Slavery would be allowed in the Northwest territory
False
He came up with the Great Compromise
Who is Roger Sherman?
He believed the best way to protect liberty was to divide the powers of government into three branches.
Who is the Baron de Montesquieu?
This is rule by the consent of the people.
What is a Republic?
Power to tax, power to make laws, and control of the military was given to the English Parliament after this document was created.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
These officials closed the Miss. River to U.S. shipping in 1784.
What are the Spanish?
. The Anti- Federalists would not agree to ratify the Constitution unless the this was added.
What is the Bill of Rights?
He argued that government had to protect life, liberty and property. If not, subjects had a right to rebellion. This was a key point in the American Revolution.
Who is John Locke?
This is a form of government where citizens elect representatives to make decisions for them.
What is a representative democracy?
This document setup a direct democracy in the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
True or False The New Jersey plan was favored by the smaller populated states.
What is True?
True or False The Federalists were a political group who opposed the new Constitution.
He believed without government life would solitary, brutish, nasty and short.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This is when the king shares power with the people.
This set up a system of law based on precedents.
What is Common Law?
This plan would have two houses both based on the population of each state.
What is the Virginia Plan?
We know what happened inside the Constitutional Convention because of this man’s journal.
Who is James Madison?
He influenced Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
This is a form of government where individuals and government share ownership in major businesses and government takes on a greater role in citizen’s lives.
What is Socialism?
This was/were the United States’ first constitution.
What is/are the Articles of Confederation?
This occurs when there are increased prices for goods & services combined with the reduced value of money.
What is inflation?
This is the idea that political authority belongs to the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This is the sharing of power between the national and state.
What is Federalism?
This is a type of government where the government owns and controls all aspects of life for its citizens
What is communism?