Vocabulary
formal approval or final consent to the effectiveness of the Constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty
What is RATIFICATION?
The idea that government power should be restricted
What is LIMITED GOVERNMENT?
The writer of the Declaration of Independence
Who is THOMAS JEFFERSON?
Was the major weakness of the Articles of Confederation
What is a WEAK CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, no power to collect taxes?
Those who were for the Constitution and a strong national government
What are FEDERALISTS?
chief executive’s power to reject a bill passed by legislature
What is VETO?
The government should have the power to make laws
What is ORDERED government?
The date the Declaration of Independence was signed
What is July 4, 1776?
The Articles of Confederation gave so much power to the states because they wanted to prevent a ...
What is a MONARCHY?
Those who were against the Constitution and wanted to keep more power with the state governments
What are ANTI-FEDERALISTS?
delegates who drafted the US Constitution
Who are FRAMERS?
The government serves the will of the people
The location where the Declaration of Independence was written
Where is PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA?
Meaning one house; the type of congress established under the Articles of Confederation
What is UNICAMERAL?
Means two houses; the type of legislature created by the Connecticut Compromise and the one still have today
What is a BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE?
a person with the authority to represent others at a conference or convention
Who are DELEGATES?
A tax that was placed on all paper products in the colonies; a defining example of taxation without representation
What is the STAMP ACT?
The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation eventually led the States to determine it was necessary to establish a ...
What is a STRONGER NATIONAL GOVERNMENT?
The number of votes that were needed to ratify the Constitution
What is NINE?
a joining of several groups for a common purpose
What is a CONFEDERATION?
The type of colony that was ruled completely by the King
What is a ROYAL COLONY?
The idea that the government only has power because the people give it to them
A result of economic chaos, this event quickly revealed Congress' inability to print money or regulate commerce under the Articles of Confederation
What is SHAY'S REBELLION?
An agreement that three-fifths of a states slave population could be counted in their total population
What is the THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE?