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| theory designed to increase nations wealth through development of commercial industry and a favorable balance of trade |
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| it’s a meeting of representatives of 13 colonies held in NY City in 1765 during which reps drafted a document to send to the King listing how their rights have been violated |
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| Committee of Correspondence |
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| organizations in colonies created to keep colonists abreast of developments with the British served as powerful models of public opinion against the British |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| meeting held in Philladelphia from September 5-October 26th, 1774 in which 56 delegated adopted a resolution in opposition to the Coercive Acts |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| meeting that canvened in Philly on May 10th, 1775 at which it was decided that an army should be raised and George Washington was named commander in chief |
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| type of gov where the national gov derives its powers from the states. A league of independent states. |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| document drafted by Thomas Jeffereson in 1776 that proclaimed the right of the American colonies to separate from Great Britian |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| the compact amoung the 13 original states that was the basis of their governement written in 1776 the articles were not ratified in all the states in 1781. |
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| a 1786 rebellion in which an army of 1500 disgruntled and angry farmers led by Daniel Shays marched to Springfield, Massachusettes and forcably restrained the state court from foreclosing mortgages on their farms |
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| a document establishing the structure, functions and limitations of a government |
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| first general plan for the Constitution proposed by James Madison, it's key poits were a bicameral legislature an executive chosen by the legislature and a judiciary also named by the legislature |
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| a framework for the Constitution proposed by a group of small states, it's key points were a one house legislature with one vote for each state. The establishment of the Acts of Congress as the Supremem Law of the land and a Suprememe Judiciary with limited power. |
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| decision made during the Constitutional Convention to give each state the same number of representatives in the Senate regardless of size; representation in the House was determined by population. |
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| Agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention stipulating that each slave was to be counted as 3/5 a person for purposes of determining population for representration in the US House of representatives |
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| a way of dividing power amoung 3 branches of government in which members of the House of Representatives, members of the Senate, the President, and Federal Courts are selecetd by and responsible to different constituencies |
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| a governmental structure that gives each of the 3 branches of government some degree of oversight and control over the actions of the others |
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| plan of gov created in the US Constitution in which power is divided between the national government and the state govs and in which independent states are bound together under one national government |
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| 17 specific powers granted to Congress under Article One Secrion 8 under the US Constitution; these powers include taxation, coinage of money, regulation of commerce, and the authoority to provide for a national defence |
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| necessary and proper clause |
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| the final paragraph of Article 1 Secion 8 of the US Constitution, which gives Congress the authority to pass all laws necessary and proper to carry out the enumerated powers specified in the Constitution; also called the elastic clause |
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| powers derived from the enumerated powers and the necessary and proper clause. These powers are not stated specifically but are considered to be resonably implied through the exercise of delegated powers |
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| portion of Article 6 (VI) of the US Constitution mandating that national law is supreme to all other laws passed by the states or by any other subdivision of gov |
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| those who favor a stronger national gov and supported the proposed US Constitution; later they became the first US political party |
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| those who favored strong state gov and a weak national gov; they opposed the Constitution |
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| a series of 85 political papers written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in support of ratification of the US Constitution |
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| the first 10 ammendments to the US Constitution |
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