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trained by brother to be land surveyor
took information to the french that england declared war (7yrs war)
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| Leader of winning side at Battle of Trenton |
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translated bible into english
said scriptures were greater than the pope (he must not talk to God if he didn't know the plague was coming)
lollards were followers |
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wrote 95 theses
excommunicated and outlawed
translated bible into german
attacked selling indulgences |
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Bohemian
Labeled of heretic and catholic church killed him with safe passage trick
attacked clergy and selling indulgences
Followers were hussites and taborites
Huge influence on martin luther |
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At odds with martin luther who wouldn't form a new church
switzerland
anabaptist ??
thought reformation was too weak |
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Humanist lawyer
wrote The Institutes of the Christian Religion
In England, followers called puritans |
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| 3 churches founded by John Calvin |
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| Presbyterianism, congregationalism, and reformed church |
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rose in the english reformation
had puritans intermixed |
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| the contemporary reformationists with pope leo x |
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church of england
puritans
separatists (pilgrims) |
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founded by john calvin
local church governed by church board elders who are elected
BOTTOM UP (our govt. modeled after this approach) |
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pattern described in new testament
not calvinists
LDS are like this (TOP DOWN) |
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believed in predestination
aspired for 'visible saints'
universal education proponent
right to create own govt.
all male members have equal vote
diligent work ethic |
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| govt. with power in family or group with wealth |
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| rule based on distinguished or wise ancestors or heritage |
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| absolute power centralized in one person or small group |
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greek for virtue
which founding father used this term? |
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| James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton |
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| Authors of the Federalist |
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| First Chief Justice of the United States |
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| Alexander Hamilton and Patrick Henry |
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| prominent founding fathers who refused nominations to be chief justice (2) |
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| person who refused a second nomination as chief justice because he though it lacked prestige |
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| the number of federal district courts in the US |
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| the number of appellate courts in the US |
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| leader of the federal convention/ constitutional convention |
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| smallpox blankets were given to native americans during the 7 years/ french and indian war |
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| infected blankets with this disease was used on whom? |
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wrote in A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE about how laws should be modeled so that people can act in self interest and that will be obeying the law
americans need this because they don't have the innate drive to follow the law
this guy is a scottish philosopher contemporary to Locke |
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colonists canot move west, those there must vacate,
British proclamation |
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| immediately following the French and Indian war, ended it |
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| Native American uprising, these types of things were hoped to be limited by the colonists not moving out west |
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| colony resources are taken for mother country use, end product sold back in the colony |
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it was caused by the tea company dying
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a monopoly was created
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boston tea party |
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| what was the tea act and what was cause and effect |
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| stamps for legal documents, dice, stamps for other paper goods like land grants, newspapers, and pamphlets |
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| the items the stamp act was taxing |
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| The sons of liberty did this defiant act that caused the intolerable acts to come down hard on the colonies |
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Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Govt. Act, Administration of Justice Act, new Quartering Act, Quebec Act
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First Continental Congress happened in response |
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all were the Intolerable/ coercive acts
...... because of these acts, the colonists got together at the what? |
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| man who had the notion of 'city on a hill' |
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Periodic consent
from Filters of Consent |
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the opportunity to vote periodically and you have some say, so that means you agree to laws that govern you
David Hume |
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Original consent
from Filters of Consent |
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by right of being or turning 18, you acknowledge that you are to abide by the law
David Hume |
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| all laws must apply to broad categories of people, law can't single out individuals |
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| laws only apply going forward (no ex post facto) |
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| laws must be known or available and even little changes need to be advertized (you can't plead ignorance) |
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| where was the 'whites of their eyes' quote from in rvln? |
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| the most death in the rvlnry war happened because of it |
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| the first battle that washington won in the rvlnry war |
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| both sides of rvlnry war had this help |
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| blacks fought during the war |
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| km., kaskaskia, vincennes battles |
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| which battles were fought on the frontier |
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| replaced horatio gates in the war (voted by congress) |
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| the greatest ally that america had during the rvlnry war |
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| the last battle of the rvlnry war |
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| The native americans west of the mississippi during the revolutionary war fought with whom? |
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Poor RIchards Almanac
... the boat was Bohemian Richard ship..(?) |
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| written by Ben Franklin, there was a boat named after this book. |
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| diplomat who secured French help during the revolutionary war |
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| the Prussian who saved many lives in the ___ war because of sanitation |
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| the old wagonmaster, survived 499 lashes, a superb tactician at the battle of cowpen, and he had a group of sharpshooters called after his name |
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| famous founding father who didn't sign the declaration of independence |
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| american bookseller, chief artillery officer of continental army, later first secretary of war for the united states |
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| highest ranking american military officer during the revolutionary war |
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| french military officer who volunteered to fight for the americans for free, was a major general, franklin recommended him to be aide-de-camp. |
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george washington's assistant/ son
federalist
washington's cabinet- sec. of treasury
leader of federalist party |
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french aristocrat
fought in 7 yrs and rvlnry war
part of battle when cornwallis surrendered |
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| these 2 states were thinking about realigning with the crown if they couldn't get let in to the United States |
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| this state wouldn't provide military protection for congress of the constitutional convention who were threatened by past revolutionary soldiers seeking backpay |
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| refused to sign the constitution because it did not contain a declaration of rights |
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Had the idea to elect the executive leaders instead of congress choosing them (helping separation of powers)
federalist
from pennsylvania
proposed the 3-5 compromise |
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| was not at the constitutional convention because he was in France negotiating a treaty |
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| those staunch supporters of british rule |
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| those committed to total patriots |
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| principle author of the Declaration of Independence |
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Second Treatise of Government
Locke |
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| the document that the first and second paragraphs of the dec. of ind. models... and the author of this document |
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| german mercenaries who fought in the revolutionary war on the british side |
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author of common sense
laid out the model for a radical democracy |
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| john adams, roger sherman, robert livingston, thomas jefferson, ben franklin |
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| the members of the declaration committee |
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| author of thoughts on govt, which sketches out three branches of government instead of one legislative body (so this approach was opposite of common sense) |
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| the person to whom the declaration of independence is addressed |
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| Henry Lee and George Mason |
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| 27 resolutions part of declaration of ind. (Inspired?) by who? (2) |
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person who opposes the battle of trenton and wants to go to congress to take general washington's job
warned not to talk about the plan for trenton to anyone |
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| person who prompted the albany congress of union |
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| second continental congress |
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| the group that ran the show during the revolutionary war |
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| plan where representation in congress would be based on a state's population, the state governments would fall by the wayside mostly and the varying interests of each state would be represented |
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| plan where each state would have equal representation in congress because each state is a unified political body |
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| Hero at saratoga but eventually turned traitor to the United States, so the boot monument is all that stands in the US of him today, where he is unnamed. Fought against Gate's orders. |
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| French leader who was not under US command |
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location: versailles
end of the revolutionary war, we offered 10 million and British will leave |
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| soldiers payed by congress to stay around in money that they wouldn't accept for property taxes, veteran homes are foreclosing |
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| factors leading to Shay's Rebellion, where they burned down courthouses |
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| _____ power in Congress originates in House and tried in the Senate |
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| Impeachment power originates ____ and tried ______ |
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| Ben Franklin's property qualification story |
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| the process of redrawing the boundaries of congressional districts |
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term that has to do with redistricting
the process (can be unlawful) of drawing oddly shaped congressional districts in order to preserve the political power of the majority party |
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| the two presidents that have been impeached |
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| the person who would be the next President if both the President and Vice President died |
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the power to impeach a president rests in ____ percentage
the power to remove a president requires ____ percentage |
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| help by native americans in america (type of citizenship) |
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| Necessary and Proper Clause |
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| the part of the constitution that has to do with implied powers of congress |
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| deals with all things that have to do with treaties |
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| wars that never were actually declared as war (2) |
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| In the Great Compromise, this group chose Senate representatives |
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| In the Great Compromise, this group chose House representatives |
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| put forth the Great Compromise |
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| the topic of the Great Compromise |
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| Hume idea, as written in Thoughts on Govt by John Adams |
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| source of bicameralism notion |
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| Constitution section with House information |
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| number of members currently in the House |
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House: 2 yrs
Senate: 6 yrs |
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| Terms of office for congressmen |
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| original ratio of people to member of house of reps. |
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| section of constitution about the house |
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| the first state to adopt a bicameral legislature during the war |
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| an impeachment is essentially equivalent to |
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| the compromise relating to counting blacks as part of the population for representation and taxation |
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| the agreement that the south would stop importing slaves in 20 years (not ending slavery, that wasn't talked about) |
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Give me Liberty or give me Death
Anti Federalist
Pushed for Bill of RIghts after ratification |
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| virginia state government that states modeled themselves after ... elected representatives |
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| president of the senate, only has a vote when there is a tie |
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| the role that the VP also plays |
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| how laws are made is in what section of the constitution |
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| the place where they fillibuster |
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| section of the constitution that talks about the fugitive slave compromise |
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| fugitive slave compromise |
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| gave slave owners the right to pursue their run away slaves |
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| this section of the constitution deals with the power congress has to declare war, collect taxes, and includes the necessary and proper clause |
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| person who made the midnight appointments |
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| didn't deliver the midnight appointments |
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| number of supreme court justices in US |
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| number of utah court justices |
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| when supreme court asks for lower court records and want to take up a case on their own bidding, usually to make a statement about how they feel about that case |
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change their own mind
amendment |
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| 2 ways for supreme court decision to change |
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| number of federal district courts |
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| number of court of appeals in the US... and utah's location |
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| the role of the district courts to decide |
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| not geographical, international business, territories, when circuit/ appeal courts both have jurisdiction and can't agree |
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| purpose of the one extra court of appeals |
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| president who tried to stack the supreme court |
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| the location in the constitution all about the executive branch |
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| the location in the constitution all about the judicial branch |
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| the location in the constitution all about how states should deal with one another (full faith and credit) |
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| the location in the constitution about amendments and ratifying amendments |
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| the location in the constitution about Debts and Oaths- Prof. Fish thinks that the integrity of this article is gone. |
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| the location in the constitution about how they would ratify the constitution |
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| the four states that wouldn't ratify the constitution right away |
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Wrote the Spirit of the Laws
argued for the idea of separation of powers |
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saved the virginia colony from the starving time with the tobacco industry
married pocahantus |
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1. in a state of nature there is no government
2. men create a social contract
3. governments only job is to protect people's natural rights
government exists by consent of teh governed
5. if government violates the social contract, the people have the right and duty to revolt |
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| the 5 points from Locke's second treatise of government |
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| leader of the jamestown settlement in virginia |
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| type of community that jamestown was |
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| type of community that plymouth was |
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| covenant and corporate community |
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| type of community that massachusetts bay as |
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author of wealth of nations
put down mercantilism |
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| leader of the pilgrims (separatist movement) back in england that taught the separation from the church of Englad |
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organized Boston Tea Party
anti- federalist |
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Patriot
helped organize an intelligence and alarm system
messenger in battles of lexington and concord |
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son of liberty
had highest govt. position during the revolutionary war (president of the massachusetts provincial congress, appointed major general by them, died in battle. |
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| actually delivered the message to concord (not paul revere) |
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| samuel adams and john hancock |
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| british were searching for these men during lexington and concord |
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scottish- fled to america
added a jones to his last name to escape a reputation that he was cruel
called ship bon homme richard to honor ben franklin's poor richard's almanac |
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| refused to sign the constitution (wanted bill of rights)but later persuaded virginia to ratify it |
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father of the constitution
4th president
helped create the democratic republican party |
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toured america
wrote Democracy in America |
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| land granted because of george rogers clark from great britain |
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| religious leaders in charge of govt |
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| the agreement that the people have with govt- like minded pepple write laws that only those like minded people will agree with |
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| law from natural law precedented in earlier court cases (application) |
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| law said by greeks that is innate sense of right and wrong, resides in human heart |
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| govt is bound to protect these, they are granted by nature |
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protection against arbitrary arrest
sometimes called great writ
officer has to show prisoner why under arrest |
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| explains reasons for the passage of a constitution or statute |
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| section of the constitution that banned the importation of slaves |
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| punishes a person without trial |
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| the written listing of the powers of the government |
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| motion to end debate on a bill if 60 senators support it |
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| import taxes or general taxes |
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| decides if there is enough evidence for indictment |
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| receiving the largest percentage of the votes |
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| case that looks open and shut to a grand jury- easy indictment with sufficient evidence |
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| city or city state governed by its citizens |
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| congressional district record |
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| non official publication of speeches,, correspondence, etc from the house of legislation |
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