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| Opposed to the constitution; fearing it gave too much power to the national government |
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| Articles of Confedereation |
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| First constitution, which gave most of the power to the states |
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| First ten amendments that were created to protect individual liberties from the federal government |
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| The idea that each branch of government has the ability to influence the actions of another |
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| Declaration of Independance |
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| The document that announced that the colonies wanted independance from Great Britian due to poor treatment |
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| Equal Priviledges and Immunities Clause |
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| A clause stating that states are to treat their citizens and ones from different states equally |
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| A governing arrangment that provides multiple levels of government with independent ruling authority over certain policy areas and guarantees the survival of these different levels of government |
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| Supports of the Constitution and its ratification |
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| Full Faith and Credit Claus |
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| A clause that says that each state must honor the offical acts of other states |
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| The agreement between small and large states: Representation in the Senate would be equal while representation in the house would be based on population |
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| An election where voters select other people to vote directly for candidates for a certain office. Senate and presidental elections were like this but now just senat are direct elections |
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| The power of the courts to declare laws or other government actions unconstitutional |
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| Shared sense of understanding and belonging and that they have right to a self-government over a defined authority |
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| One of the rival plans at the constitutional convention. It called for a single house leglislator with equal representation of states |
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| A public system where the head of the executive branch is selected by members of the legislator rather than the popular vote |
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| A system where people elect representatives represent them to write policies and make laws. In contrast to a direct democracy where people do this themselves |
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| The principle that the three branches of government's each have equal but different powers |
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| A protest in Massachusettes(1786-1787)to stop foreclosures on property by state courts. Convinced many political figures that the Articles of Confederation was not efficient. |
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| A clause in the Constitution that declares that national laws and treaties have supremacy over state laws and treaties |
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| An agreement between slave states and free states that slaves should be counted as 3/5 towards population for representation purposes in the HOR |
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| A rival plan at the constitutional convention that proposed a two-house legislator with representation based on state population. The lower house would be elected directly by people then that house would select members of the upper house |
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