Legal and Constitutional Foundations
This document set up a direct democracy.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Advocated dividing government power into three branches.
Who is the Baron de Montesquieu?
Proposed two houses both based on population of the states.
Citizens elect representatives to make decisions.
What is a Representative Democracy?
Turning point of the war and the French joined the war after this battle.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This Document gave Parliament powers such as taxing, lawmaking, and controlling the military, but not deciding who should be king.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Believed life without government would be solitary, brutish, and short.
political group who supported the Constitution
Who are the Federalists?
This form of Government is when King shares power with the people.
What is a limited monarchy?
Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas Night and place where Washington defeated the Hessians.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
Set up a legal system based on precedents.
What is Common Law?
Kept a journal of what happened inside the Constitutional Convention. He is known as “The Father of the Constitution”
Who is James Madison?
Idea that political authority belongs to the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Government and individuals share ownership of major businesses, with the government taking a more active role in people’s lives.
What is Socialism?
Henry Knox brought canons to Dorchester Heights from Fort Tichonderoga and Washington kicked the British out of Boston without firing.
What is the Battle of the Dorchester Heights?
The United States' first constitution and one weakness is that there would not be a legislative branch.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Argued for the protection of life, liberty, and property and influenced the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
Group who wanted a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution before agreeing to ratify it.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
form of government ruled by religious leaders
What is Theocracy?
French and Americans lay siege in this town and General Cornwallis surrendered to French and American forces.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This document established the right to a witness to a crime and jury trial
What is the Magna Carta?
Influenced Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence
Proposed by Roger Sherman to balance representation between large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
Rule by consent of the people.
What is a Republic?
Misnamed, actually fought on Breed’s Hill and Continental Army ran out of ammunition here.