Term
| Following Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris, the last British forces left ______ in December 1783. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The British representative at the peace talks in Paris __________. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Under the Treaty of Paris, America's western boundary was ______. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| _____ were the hardest hit by the recession that followed independence. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Congress moved from Philadelphia eventually to New York because _________. |
|
Definition
| militiamen gathered in in Philadelphia to demand their pensions |
|
|
Term
| The executive body (more or less) of the Congress under the Articles of Confederation was called the ________. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| New England land speculators in the northwest territories were organized as the ________. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The country's first superintendent of Finance under the Articles of Confederation was _______. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The event in Massachusetts which convinced many of the need for constitutional convention was _____. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Two important people who dissent from the building belief that anarchy threatened the country were _____. |
|
Definition
| Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson |
|
|
Term
| The central problem of republican theory is _______________________________. |
|
Definition
| having power for safety while preventing power from endangering liberty. |
|
|
Term
| The term ______ was first used to designate opponents of the crown during the reign of Charles I. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The reclamation of English lost liberties began with the signing of _______ in ____. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| History for Country republicans moved _______, not along a straight path for progress. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The author who for Country republicans was the authority on the question of associational size was ___________. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Representation works better in small republics for two reasons: |
|
Definition
| Representatives resemble the people they represent command more confidence, reducing the risk of abuse of power; Small republics reduce the tendency for corruption of representatives as they can be supervised better. |
|
|
Term
| One sure measure of liberty's demise is the presence of __________. |
|
Definition
| a standing army in times of peace |
|
|
Term
| Court republicans would guard liberty through _____________ rather than through the civic virtue of a vigilant populous. |
|
Definition
| a complex government with separated powers checking and balancing each other |
|
|
Term
| Besides government, Madison argued, another source of oppression is ______. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Madison thought that the solution to majority tyranny lay in _______can provide. |
|
Definition
| the political diversity and numerous factions an extended republic |
|
|
Term
| Sparta retained her liberty longer than other republics because _____. |
|
Definition
| new territory was not sought after as a spoil of war |
|
|
Term
| _________________, says Montesquieu, is the means by which small states can defend themselves. |
|
Definition
| The confederated republic |
|
|
Term
| The people's share in government should, according to Montesquieu, be confined to ______________. |
|
Definition
| the choosing of representatives. |
|
|
Term
| Hume likens _______ to weeds. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Dividing factions into personal and real, Hume claims that personal factions arise most easily in ____________________. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Government supplies the defect of _______. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Elected representatives are prevented from developing interests distinct from the electors by frequent ______. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The principle of nature on which the form of government is best based is ____. |
|
Definition
more simple anything is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired
when disordered |
|
|
Term
| The virtue of the English constitution depends exclusively on the _____. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Madison defines faction as a number of citizens acting in a manner adverse to ______ or to _______. |
|
Definition
| the rights of other citizens; the permanent and aggregate interests of the community |
|
|
Term
| Madison identifies two ways of curing factions: ________ |
|
Definition
| by removing its causes or by controlling its affects. |
|
|
Term
| Says Madison: Liberty is to faction what _______. |
|
Definition
| air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires |
|
|
Term
| Madison contends that the most common source of faction is _______. |
|
Definition
| the various and unequal distribution of property |
|
|
Term
| According to Madison, minority faction is solved by the __________. |
|
Definition
| diverse political interests of an extended republic which present little danger from interested combinations of the majority |
|
|
Term
| Given the fact, sas Madison, that governments are not for angels but for men, and are not run by angels but by men, the difficulty lies in this: _________________. |
|
Definition
| You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself |
|
|
Term
| ________ is what distinguishes a free government from an arbitrary government. |
|
Definition
| The assent of the people to the laws by which they are governed causing them to be ruled by the will of the whole |
|
|
Term
| In a republic, manners, sentiments, and interests of the people should be _____. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Despotisms and monarchies use _____ to enforce laws. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| For John Locke, supremacy belongs to the ________, while sovereignty belongs to ________. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Locke calls the power of war and peace the _______. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Real faction is of three kinds: __________. |
|
Definition
| those from interest, from principle, from affection |
|
|
Term
| Hume supposes that people of mild temperament incline towards _____, while those whose spirits are bold and generous incline toward republics. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| While the English in general support their mixed regime, some would invigorate the crown while others would constrain its powers. The former belong to the Court party, the latter to the ____. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Faction in England arose during _____. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Followers of King Charles I were called ______, while followers of Parliament were called ______. |
|
Definition
| Round-Head (Court); Cavalier (Country) |
|
|
Term
| Upon the restoration of the Stuart dynasty, with Charles II, new parties arose in Britain, which went by the names of ______. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Hume's contention is that a republic, while more difficult to establish in ________, is easier to maintain than one established in ______. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Free governments are ruined by ______. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Madison defines a republic as a popular government in which the system of ______ is in place. |
|
Definition
|
|
