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| based on the nature and providence rather than on the preferences of the people |
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| a constitution drafted in 1777 by the independent states, it created a weak national goverment that could not levy taxes or regulate commerce. It was replaced in 1778 by the constitution we have now. |
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| articles of confederation |
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| a meeting of delegates to revise the articles of confederation, which produced a totally new constitution still in use today |
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| constitutional convention |
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| a form of democracy in which power is vested in reprecsentatives selected by means of popular competive elections |
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| the power of legislature, exectutive, and judicial branches of goverment to block some acts by the other two branches |
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| a political system in which ultimate authority is shared between national and and state goverment |
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| a group of people who seek to infulence the public policy in ways contrary to the public good |
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upporters of a strong central goverment
antifederalist- opponets of a strong central goverment who campainged against ratification of the constitution in favor of a confederation of largely independent states |
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| a series of eighty-five essays that were published in new york news papers to convience people to adopt the newly proposed constitution. |
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| an alliance among different interest groups or parties to achieve some political goal |
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a court order directing a police officer holding someone in custody to bring the prisoner before a judge and show sufficient cause for his or her detention
bill of attainder- a law that declares a person without a trial, to be guilty of a crime. |
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| a law that makes crimnal an act that was legal when it was committed, that increases the penalty for a crime aterit has been committed or that changes 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 religon and the press |
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| changes in the constitution |
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| a principle of American government whereby constitutional authority is shared by 3 separate branches |
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| is the doctrine in democratic theory under which legislative and executive action is subject to invalidation by the judiciary. |
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| a group of Revolutionary war soldiers that were angry with high taxes and fearful of losing property, and prevented courts in Mass. from sitting |
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| a law that declares a person, without trial to be guilty of a crime |
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| opponents of a strong central government |
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| a solution to the New Jersey Plan; created a HOuse of Representatives and 2 senators from each state |
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