Founding documents
Pilgrims signed this document in 1620 and agreed to create laws for the good of their colony.
Mayflower Compact
This philosopher believed that people needed to be protected by the government. He was also the foundation for American Democracy and the principles for the foundation of the Declaration of Independence/Constitution.
John Locke
"We hold these truths self evident, that all men are.....
The Articles of Confederation were written to be _______.
Weak
Those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution.
Anti-Federalist (Government was too strong)
This document was signed in 1215 and established that even the king must obey the law.
Magna Carta
Rousseau, Locke, and Hobbes all wrote about this philosophy in which people agreed to receive protection in return to give up some/all of their rights.
Social Contract
High taxes, no participation in government, standing armies in the colonies, no consent to be governed, abuse and tyranny.
Reasons why the American colonists broke away from England.
The two main political parties that emerged at the time were...
Federalists (led by Alexander Hamilton)
Anti-Federalist (led by Thomas Jefferson)
Those who supported the ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist (Supported a strong government)
This 1689 document limited the English monarch’s power and protected rights such as petitioning the government.
English Bill of Rights
This philosopher believed that people should give up all of their rights in order to receive protection from a single sovereign entity.
Thomas Hobbes
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
If slave votes were allowed to be counted, the compromise would have been that slaves were counted as __________ of a person.
3/5
This principle means the government receives its power from the people.
Popular Sovereignty or Consent of the Governed
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet to convince American colonists to support independence from Britain.
Common Sense
This philosopher imagined that human beings share the natural rights of ______, _______, and _______. Through which all people have these unalienable rights that cannot be taken away.
John Locke and the natural rights: life, liberty, property (later pursuit of happiness)
Why was the Declaration of Independence a problem when it was written?
Loyalist states did not want to break away from England. Most notable were Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
How many states need to approve the Constitution before it could be amended? (Amended means to approve or to pass)
9/13
The Anti-Federalists would not agree to sign the Constitution until the Federalist agreed to add the...
Bill of Rights
The Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact and English Bill of Rights all helped establish this basic idea about government power.
Limited government
This American Founding Father drew heavily on Locke’s ideas, paraphrasing his natural rights philosophy in the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
What was not addressed in the Declaration of Independence that let down many people living in the colonies.
Issue of slavery, westward expansion, rights for women.
The Great Compromise combined the Virginia Plan (Supported by the Federalist party) and the New Jersey Plan (Supported by the Anti-Federalist Party) which did what?
Virginia Plan (large states): Wanted votes based upon proportional representation.
New Jersey Plan (small states): Wanted votes based upon equal representation.
There were the three groups that the Constitution did not explicitly protect with its language and how it was written.
Women, Enslaved African Americans, Native Americans.