Vocab
Refers to the idea of keeping different branches of government to keep one from gaining too much power
What is separation of powers
Used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch.
What is a checks and balances
DAILY DOUBLE! What are some beliefs of Enlightenment thinkers? Each answer correct is worth a 100 points
• ideas built on scientific discoveries of the 1600s
• believed that God created an orderly universe & laws are discovered through human reason.
• emphasized reason and individualism rather than tradition.
• thinkers argued that the laws that governed nature also applied to human life and society.
There are this many articles within the constitution
7 articles
Double Points f you can what the main idea is for at least 3 of these articles!
These two groups argued about the size of the new federal government during the Constitutional Convention.
Who are federalists and anti-federalists?
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
Town meetings where citizens act on issues are an example of this type of government
What is direct democracy
First Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This amendment stated that any powers not given to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved for the states and the people
What is the tenth amendment?
This document lists the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
The three branches of government, demonstrated by the Virginia House of Burgesses
What are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
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"From whatever side we approach our principle [belief], we reach the same conclusion, that the ______________ sets up among the citizens an equality of such a kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights."
What is the Social Contract?
Uprising of Massachusetts farmers against unjust taxes.
What is Shays Rebellion?
This is the name of the essays that described what a new constitution should look like.
What are the Federalist Papers?
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is electoral college?
Plan that called for a unicameral legislature where each state had the same number of representatives
What is the New Jersey Plan?
In this literature work Locke stressed the importance of a limited government, democracy, and the protections of citizens' natural rights.
What is the Two Treatises of Government?
The inability to fund a military, raise revenue, or regulate commerce between states
What were the weaknesses of the Articles of confederation
This term means "two houses" and refers to our legislature - used in the Great Compromise
What is Bicameral
Once it was decided that representation in the House of Representatives was to be based on population, delegates from Northern and Southern states saw another issue arise: how enslaved people should be counted. Delegates from Northern states, where the economy did not rely heavily on the enslavement of African people, felt that enslaved people should not be counted toward representation because counting them would provide the South with a greater number of representatives. Southern states fought for enslaved individuals to be counted in terms of representation. The compromise between the two became known as the _________________
What is 3/5ths compromise
"No Taxation without representation" refers to this key principle of self-government that colonials had gotten used to.
Popular Soveriegnty or representative democracy
The people in a society agree to give up a part of their freedom (to the government) and obey government laws in exchange for protection of natural rights.
What are the conditions of a social contract?
Double points if you can answer how various Enlightenment authors interpreted it.
The Articles of confederation only allowed for this branch of the Federal government
What is Legislative