Constitutional Convention
The reason for a Constitutional Convention.
What is revising the Articles of Confederation?
An agreement between the people and their government.
What is a Social Contract?
Britain initiated this Act on the colonies to avoid conflicts with the Natives.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Colonies declared their independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
An agreement reached by both sides giving up something.
What is a compromise?
A compromise where slaves were counted for representation as well as taxation.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
He argued that political power should be based on the consent of the governed.
What is John Locke?
A tax on foreign molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
Main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Life, liberty and property.
What are Natural Rights?
A unicameral Congress with equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
He believed that people should relenquish some of their rights to be protected by a king.
What is Thomas Hobbes?
Britain had a large war debt following this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
A League of Friendship was this type of governing system.
What is a confederacy?
The Enlightenment principle--consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
Enlarging a republic was one of the solutions to protecting the minority.
What is tyranny of the majority?
Thomas Hobbes wrote this book which lays out his theory on the purpose of government.
What is The Leviathan?
Britain taxed newspapers and official documents sold in the American colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
He is the "father of the US Constitution".
What is James Madison?
Power is shared between the National government and the State government.
What is federalism?
This event proved that the constitution was too weak and needed to be replaced.
What is Shays Rebellion?
An Enlightenment principle that allowed the colonies to replaced their government.
What is the right to revolution?
Britain issued the Intolerable Acts in response to this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The first government of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Representation that is based on population.
What is proportional representation?