Vocabulary
A form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly
What is Direct/Pure democracy?
A form of government in which the ruler is not restricted by a constitution or laws.
What is a Dictatorship?
What are the five basic Concepts of Democracy?
Majority Rule with Minority Rights, Equality of all Persons,Necessity of Compromise, Individual Freedom, Fundamental Worth of Individual
The two political groups that were created at the convention.
What is Federalist and Anti-Federalist?
A document that declared independence from Britain and the formation of a new country.
What is the of Declaration of Independence?
A system of government in which the people control the government through elected political officials
What is a indirect/Representative democracy?
A government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial governments.
What is Federal?
People are equal before the Law and Equality of Opportunity.
What is Equality of all Persons?
A plan that was support by large state, it based representation on populations.
What is the Virginia Plan?
America's First Constitution created in 1777, created a loose alliance of 13 independent states.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
What is ratification?
A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
What is Republic?
Each individual, no matter what his/her station in life, is a separate and distinct being. Everyone is to have a sense of value and dignity is the democratic thought of welfare.
What is the Fundamental Worth of Individual?
A compromise where every 5 enslaved people counted as 3 in the states population.
What is the 3/5th compromise?
A meeting organized by Virginia in 1786 led by James Madison in Annapolis, Maryland; would discuss the issue of the controlling commerce.
What is the Annapolis Convention?
The principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
A government that gives all key powers to the national or central government.
What is Unitary?
Each individual must be as free to do as he or she pleases as far as the freedom of all will allow.
What is individual freedom?
Was a plan proposed by Roger Sherman.
Was is Connecticut or Great Compromise?
A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
The citizens' faith and trust in government and their belief that they can understand and influence political affairs.
What is Political Efficacy?
A government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control.
What is Totalitarian?
Why is compromise necessity in government?
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Called for a strong state government and weaker central government. Each state would get one vote, equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Uprising led by Daniel Shays in an effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who could not pay the taxes
What is Shays Rebellion?