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TAKS obective 4
Brilliance
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History
10th Grade
01/14/2009

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"We the People"
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popular soverienty
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veto,veto- overide, nominate, approve nominations, judicial review
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checks and balances
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judicial review
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- declaring an action unconstitutional- Supreme Court
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taxation without rpresentation, forcing the housing of troops, denying trial by jury
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Reaons Colonists were MAD! colonial grievances
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Legislatures make the laws, president enforces, and judicial interprets
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separation of powers
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Wanted a stronger national- or FEDERAL- government.
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Federlists- who wrote the Federalist Papers
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division of power betrween the statre and national government where the national government has more power
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Federalism
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rights: press,relilion, peptition, bear arms, trial by jury
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Individial rights
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Idea that the state could ignore a federal law: slavery
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Nullification
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Basic rights that cannot be taken away
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Unalienable
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1st US government- weak central governmnet
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Articles of Confederation
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sectionalism and states rights
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reasons for the Civil War
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all men ar e created equal- government that doesn't protect the people can be abolished by the people
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Declaration of Independence
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representatives
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republicanism
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documants that encourages democracy for colonists
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Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights
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Enlightenment, distance from England, desire for political freedom
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Reasons the colonists were used to self-rule
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government has power- but not total power
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limited government
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freedom of religion, speech, petition, press, and assembly
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1st Amend.
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right to bear arms
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2nd Amend.
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Right to not quarter troops
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3rd Amend
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protection against unreasonable searches
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4th amendment
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right to not testify against yourself
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5th amend.
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right to speedy and public trial
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6th amend
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jury trial in civil cases
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7th amend
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no cruel of unusual punishment
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8th amend
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there are other rights beyon the Bill of Rights
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9th amendment
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other rights besides the illegal rights belond to the states
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10th amendment
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freed slaves
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13th Amend
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freed slaves are citizens
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14th amend
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all citizens can vote
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15th amend
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