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| God given rights that can not be taken away. |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| A constitution drafted by the newly independent states in 1777 and ratified in 1781. It created a weak national government that could not levy taxes or regulate commerce. in 1790 it was replaced by our current Constitution in order to create a stronger national government. |
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| Constitutional Convention |
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| A meeting of delegates in 1787 to revise the Articles of COnfederation, which produced a totally new constitution still in use today. |
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| A rebellion in 1787 led by Daniel shays and other ex-Revolutionary war soliders and officers to prevent foreclusure of farms as a resulf of high interest rates and taxes. the revolt highlighted the weakeness of the confederation and bolstered support for a stronger national government. |
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| A compromise at the constitutional converntion in 1787 that reconciled the intersts of small and large states by allowing the former to predominate in the senate and the latter in the house. under the agreement each state received two representatives in the senate, regardless of size, but was allotted representatives on the basis of population in the house. |
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| A form of democracy in which power is vested in representatives selected by means of popular competitive elections. |
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| the power of the courts to declare acts of the legislature and of the executive to be unconsitiutional and hence null and void. |
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| the power of the legislature, executive, and judical branches of government to block some acts by the other two branches. |
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| a political system in which utimate authority is shared between a central government and state or regional governments. |
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| a principle of American government whereby constitutional authority is hared by three separate branches of government_the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. |
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| according to the James Madison, a group of people who seek to influence public policy in ways contraty to the public good. |
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| Opponents of a strong central government who campaigned against ratification of the constitution in favor of a confedration of largely independent states. |
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| A series of eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamiltton, James Madison, and John Hay that were published in New York newspapers in 1787-1788 to convince New Yorkers to adopt the newly proposed consitiution. |
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| An alliance among different interest groups or parties to achieve some political goal. |
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| A latin term meaning "you shall have the body". A court order directing a police officer, sheriff, or warden who has a person in custody to bring the prisoner before a judge and show sufficient cause for his or her detention. |
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| A law that declares a person without a trial to be guility of a crime. the state legislatures of congress are forbidden to pass such acts by Articles I of the Constitution. |
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| is a latin term meaning "after the fact." A law that makes criminal an act that wa slegal when it was monnited that increase the penalty for crime after it has been commited, or that chages the rules of evidence to make conviction easier; a retroactive criminal law. |
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| a list of individual rights and liberties, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. |
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| changes in, or additions to the U.S constitution. Amendments are proposed by a two-third vote of both houses of congress or by a convention called by congress at the request of two-thirds of the state lefislatures and ratified by approval of three-fourths of the states. |
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| the power of an executive to veto some provisions in an appropriations bill while approving others. the president does not have the right of exercise a line-item veto and must approve or reject an entire appropriations bill. |
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