Government
A person chosen to represent a group of people at a convention.
What is a delegate?
To approve or adopt something.
What is ratifying?
The document that stated that nobility had to follow the rules.
What is the Magna Carta?
Government that is limited in what it can do. It cannot take individuals rights arbitrarily.
What is Limited Government?
A legislative branch with one chamber.
What is a unicameral legislature?
The people who favored the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
The plan of uniting the colonies against Great Britain.
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
A government where people are chosen as delegates through voting.
What is a Representative Government?
A legislative branch with two chambers.
What is a bicameral legislature?
These were the framers of the Constitution.
Who were George Washington, James Madison, George Mason, Alexander Hamilton and Roger Sherman?
The plan of government (document) preceding the Constitution.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
What is a duty?
A "firm league of friendship".
What is a confederation?
The least amount of people required to conduct any business in a legislature.
What is a quorum?
The document that Thomas Jefferson wrote, to tell Britain we were leaving.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
The people who did not support the ratification of the Constitution.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
The consent of the governed to be governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
The policy that stated slaves counted as 3/5 of a person to bolster population.
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This event showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
The two chambers that Congress is split into.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?