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Constitution
Government
Principles of Government
Articles of Confederation
Shays Rebellion
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Preamble

What is the introduction to the U.S. Constitution

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People who make laws.

What is a legislature?

100

Government can only do what we allow them to do.

What is the principal of limited government?

100
Big.
What is some tasks were too... for individual states to handle on their own?
100
Daniel.
What is the first name of shay?
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A detailed, written plan for government.

What is the constitution?

200
Divided into two parts, or houses.
What is bicameral?
200

Basic beliefs by which people live their lives.

What is principles?

200
A state could not raise and support a large army.
What is a state could not raise and support a large...?
200
1200
What is how many famers teamed up with him?
300

July 4, 1776

What is the year the constitution written?

300

The governor’s job was to carry out the laws.

What is the governor's job as the executive branch in state government?

300
The principle that the law applies to everyone.
What is the Rule of Law?
300

Strong Army.

What is American leaders knew they needed a single... under central control?

300
Jail.
What is where he was threatened to go?
400

The U.S. Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land

What the Supremacy Clause states or Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution 

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Judges in the courts decided what the laws meant and how to apply them to each new situation.
What is what the judges decided?
400

Separating the legislative, executive and judicial tasks of government.

What is separation of powers?

400

 A group of individual state governments that loosely unite for a common purpose.

What is a confederation?

400
Massachusetts.
What is where shay was?
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George Washington.

What is the person who was chosen to preside over the constitution?

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Each state had 2 senators.
What is the amount of people in each state's senate?
500

Under this system of checks, or limit, the power of the other 2 branches in several ways.

What is checks and balances?

500

The first constitution of the United States.

What is The Articles of Confederation?

500
Taxes.
What is shays couldn't afford to pay his..?