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| 1620- Pilgrims aiged a "social contract" that stated they would make laws for the general good of the people, be subject to the rule of law, use majority rule and the idea of the consent of the people. |
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| the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution. They limit government from infringing on freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly, and the rights of the criminally accused. |
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| FIrst Constitutional Convention |
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| 1174- gathered delegates of the colonies to discuss their grievances with British King George III. |
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| Second Constitutional Convention |
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| 1775- colonists met to assume the powers of a central government and establish an army and declare independence from Great Britain in 1776. |
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| A league of independent states that are united only for the purpose of achieving common goals. |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| Our nation's first constitution following the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. The articles established a confederal form of government in which the central government had few powers. In the Declaration of Independence the "Free Independent States had the power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce.." and have other rights of states. |
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| Led a rebellion in Massachusetts in 1786 of 2000 angry farmers to disrupt debtors' trials and then attacked the national arsenal. Shays Rebellion and other uprising against the government were a catalyst for the founding fathers to create a strong national government. |
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| Philidephia in 1787 a convention was held to... |
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| revise the Articles of Confederation. Instead they wrote a new Constitution which established a federal form of government and it became the Constitutional Convention. |
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| created a bicameral legislation with the House based on Population and the Senate based on equal members. |
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| To solve one of the conflicts at the Constitutional Convention the delegates agreed to count slaves as 3/5ths of a person to be counted. |
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| Constitution states that Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce but wold not tax exports from the states. |
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| A political group led by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams that supported ratification of the Constitution establishing a stronger federal government. |
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| a political group that included Thomas Jefferson, who opposed adoption/ratification of the Constitution because it created a strong federal government and did not include a Bill of Rights to limit Federal Govt. |
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| a group of persons forming a cohesive minority |
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| an arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power by an oppressive individual or government. |
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| a basic principal of government that required both those who govern and those who are governed to obey the law. |
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| a form of government that provides for a division of powers between a central government and several regional governments. In the U.S. between the national government 50 state government as established in the Constitution. |
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| the Constitution gives congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. |
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| devised by James Madison in which government powers are divided among the executive, the legislative, and the judicial branches of government. |
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| the principal of dividing governmental powers among the three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. |
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| a principle of American government in which each of the three branches is given the means to check the actions of the other branches. |
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| a constitutional power that enabled the chief executive to reject legislation and return it to the legislature with reasons for the rejection. Congress can then cote by 2/3's of both housed to override the veto. |
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| Amending the Constitution |
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| 2/3 House and Senate to propose, 3/4 states to ratify. |
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