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| the idea that government is not all-powerful. People have certain rights that government cannot take away |
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| Representative Government |
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| a government on which people elect delegates to speak for them in government |
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| a written plan for a government signed by the Pilgrims before they came ashore at Plymouth Rock |
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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| first formal constitution of the colonies. Signed in 1639. Male property owners were granted the rights to elect the governor and the representatives to the colonial legislature |
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| to refuse to have dealings with. Colonist would neither sell nor buy British goods |
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| a government that acts for all the states within a country |
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| goods being sold to other nations |
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| those who opposed the Constitution |
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| those who supported the ratification of the Constitution |
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