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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.
What is False?
This is the idea that political authority belongs to the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This was/were the United States’ first constitution.
What is/are the Articles of Confederation?
This gave Parliament the powers to tax, make laws, and gave them control of the army in England.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
He influenced Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
This is the sharing of power between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
This plan would have two houses both based on the population of the states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This setup a direct democracy in the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He believed without government life would solitary, brutish, nasty and short.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
True or False Daniel Shays led a rebellion after his farm was taken for not paying his taxes.
What is True?
True or False the New Jersey plan was favored by the smaller populated states.
This set up a system of law based on precedents.
What is Common Law or English Common Law?
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 occurs when there are increased prices for goods & services combined with the reduced value of money.
What is Inflation?
He came up with the Great Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
The Anti- Federalists would not agree to ratify the Constitution unless this was added.
What is the Bill of Rights?
He believed the best way to protect liberty was to divide the powers of government into three branches.
Who is the Baron de Montesquieu?
These officials closed the Miss. River to U.S. shipping in 1784.
Who are the Spanish?
We know what happened inside the Constitutional Convention because of this man’s journal.
Who is James Madison?