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Modifications/additions to the U.S Constitution passed with proper ammendment procedures |
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Those who opposed ratification of the proposed Constitution of the United States |
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Articles of Confederation |
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Document creating "League of friendship" governing the 13 states during and after the war of independance. Later proved to be unworkable. |
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First eight ammendments to the U.S. Constitution, protect various rights of people against new federal government. |
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System of limits imposed by Constitution, gives each branch of government limited right to change or cancel acts of other branches |
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Constitutional Convention |
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Meeting of delegates from 12 states in Philidelphia during summer of 1787. Drafted new system of government for the United States. |
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Declaration of Independance |
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| Formal document listing colonists' grievances and articulating colonists' intention to seek independance. Formally adopted by Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 |
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Show powers only granted by the Constitution such as taxing power specifically granted to Congress. |
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Series of Articles written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. Argued in favor of ratifying the proposed Constitution. |
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Those who supported ratification of the Constition between 1787-1789. |
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| Also known as "Connecticut compromise" that provided for upper house with equal representation among the states and lower house whose members were based on states population. Approved by a 5-4 vote. |
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Constitutional interpertation that gives constitutional provisions broad/open-ended meanings. |
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Proposal also known as "small states plan" that would've retained Articles of Confederation principle of equal representation among the states. |
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Principle that each branch of government has seperate and independent powers. |
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| Armed uprising by debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts who were frusterated with the state gov. |
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| Constitutional interpertation that limits the gov. to only powers stirctly stated in the Constition. |
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| Compromise proposal in which five slaves would be counted as equivalant of three free people for purposes of tax and representation. |
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Proposal known as the "large states plan" that empowered three separate branches of gov. including legislature with membership proportional to population. |
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