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| influential Virginian of the Continental Congress |
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| New York, Continental Congress |
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| Continental Congress, supported the suppression of the vote of landless men |
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| chosen as leader of backwoods rebellion (by the opposing governor) that protested the elite rule and cried for direct democracy |
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| those for the ratification of the Constitution, "league" |
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| against ratification of Constitution, "anti-league" |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| first official legislature of America, 1777, kept colonies as separate states that had most of the power |
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| indirect democracy, voters elect people to choose president |
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| protect personal liberties |
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| "every person born after ___ will be free after their ___ birthday," way in northern colonies of freeing slaves |
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| in middle colonies, eased legal restrictions and allowed individual acts of emancipation for those under the age of 45 |
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| belonged to certain colonies based on royal charters, upset certain colonies who didn't have claims there |
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| 1787, three-stage process in which settled territories could become states |
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| Constitutional Convention |
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| originally meeting to revise the Articles, became writing of whole new governmental legislature |
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| total repudiation of principle of a confederation of states, mainly by Madison, three-branch system, representation of both legislative houses based on population |
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| kept existing single house congress where each state had one vote, plural presidency, again favored national power over states' rights |
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| broke stalemate over representation (population vs. set number) per state in legislature |
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| slaves/blacks count as three-fifths of a person when counting population for House of Representatives |
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| Alexander Hamilton with James Madison and NY lawyer John Jay on series of 85 essays explaining political philosophy of Constitution |
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| none of the branches have absolute power in any decision |
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| each branch has different powers with which to accomplish different things |
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| approval by set amount of colonies for new laws |
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