English Foundations
The Magna Carta established that government power could be limited by
What are laws?
The idea that natural rights directly challenged this.
What is traditional monarchy
This marked the shift from protest to armed resistance.
What is Lexington and Concord
The Articles intentionally created a weak central government because Americans feared this.
What is repeating British tyranny?
Large states supported the Virginia Plan because representation would be based on this.
What is the population?
The English Bill of Rights helped protect this from government abuse.
What are individual rights?
Hobbes believed people give up some freedom to government to escape this and violence.
This was a turning point because it convinced France to provide military support.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
One major weakness was that Congress could not collect this from the states.
What are taxes?
This balanced population-based representation with equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
The Petition of Right reinforced the idea that taxation without this violates individual rights.
What is consent?
This philosopher argued that people possess natural rights and that government depends on the consent of this.
Who are the governed?
This is where the French naval support helped contribute to the American victory.
What is Yorktown?
National authority and this branch was not created by the Articles of Confederation.
What is the judicial branch?
This increased Southern political influence by increasing population counts used for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The Petition of Right challenged the use of imposing this without consent.
What is martial law?
This philosopher's ideas are closely connected to the principle of popular sovereignty.
Who is Jean -Jacques Rousseau?
This formally recognized U.S. independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783
This rebellion demonstrated the weakness of the national government.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The House of Representatives is based on this, while the Senate gives states equal representation.
What is the population of the state?
The historical English documents helped establish the principles of this.
What is limited government
Montesquieu believed liberty depended on dividing this among different branches.
What is government power?
The father in the Movie, The Patriot, that got involved in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
Who is Benjamin Martin?
The Articles of Confederation failed because it did not provide for an effective type of this
What is an effective national government?
This clause gave Congress the power to regulate trade between the states.
What is the Commerce Clause?