Chapter 1 and 2
Who are the people?
Run the war and write the Articles of Confederation.
What did the Second Continental Congress do?
When power is divided between different levels of government.
What is the federal system of government?
Provides a framework for the government.
What is the Constitution of 1787?
A group of states joined together by a formal agreement.
What is confederation?
Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Gave the central government too little power to be effective.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This idea in the Virginia Plan caused the most disagreement.
A law or a government rule.
What is ordinance?
Having the power to make laws.
What is legislative?
You have the right to believe as you wish.
What is religious freedom?
Didn't attend the Grand Convention of the States in 1787 because he didn't want to strengthen the central government.
Who is Patrick Henry?
The number of states that had to ratify the Constitution for it to become law.
What is 9?
To bring formal charges against a government official.
What is impeach?
To think about and discuss issues before reaching a decision.
What is deliberate?
Freedoms most state governments protected under law
What are: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and right to a trial by jury?
The stated purpose, according to the Congress, of the Grand Convention of the States of 1787 was to recommend changes to this.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Who is James Madison?
The Federal Government of the United States cannot declare what?
What is war and peace?
The ability of the people in a country to decide their own government.
Each state wrote this after gaining independence from Britian.
What is a constitution?
In 1787, the settlers of the Northwest Territory were guaranteed this by Congress.
What are the same rights as people in the thirteen states?
One house of Congress would base membership on state population while the other would grant the same number of members to each state.
What was the Great Compromise?
Unable to be taken away or denied.
What is unalienable?
Having the power to decide questions of law.
What is judicial?