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| Government is restricted with what it can do, and each individual has certain rights that government cannot take away. |
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| Representative Government |
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| Government should serve the will of the people. |
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| Fundamental rights such as trial by jury and due process of the law- protections against the absolute power of the king. |
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| Limited the kings power, the king may no longer punish or imprison someone without the lawful judgment of his peers or the law of the land. |
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| Designed to prevent abuse of power by English monarchs; forms the basis for much in American government. |
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| A written grant of authority from the king. |
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| Organized by a proprietor. |
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| A joining of several groups for a common purpose. |
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| Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies and crown. |
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| Representatives from the 13 colonies. |
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| A refusal to buy or sell certain products or services. |
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| Government can exist only with the consent of the governed. |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| Established a "firm league of friendship" among the states. |
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| Group of delegates who drafted the United States Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. |
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| Presented by delegates from Virginia at the Constitutional Convention; called for a three-branch government with a bicameral legislature in which each State's membership would be determined by its population or its financial support for the central government. |
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| Plan presented as an alternative to the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention; called for a unicameral legislature in which each state would be equally represented. |
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| Agreement during the Constitutional Convention that congress should be composed of a Senate, in which States would be represented equally, and a House, in which representation would be based on a State's population. |
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| It provided that all "free persons" should be counted, and so, too, should "three-fifths of all other persons." |
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| Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise |
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| Congress was forbidden the power to tax the export of goods from any State. |
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| Least number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business; majority. |
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