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| those who opposed the ratification of the constitution |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| the "league of friendship" underwhich the american colonies operated during and after the Revolutionary War, until the constitution |
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| first ten amendments to the constitution |
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| Decleration of Independence |
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| declared US independent from Great Britan |
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| electorals selected by states to vote on the president |
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| essays that were writen in SUPPORT of the constitituions ratification and have become a classic argument for the american constitutional system |
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| people for the constitution |
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| court authority to declare laws of congress and of state legislature on the grounds that they violate the constitution |
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| fundamental rights such as life , luiberty and property to which classic liberals considered all people entitled and therefor upon which legitimate government could not infringe |
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| Necessary & Proper Clause |
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| give congress the power to take all actions that are necsery and proper to the carring out of it delegate powers |
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| a system og government in which different institutions exercise different components of government power |
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| uprising in wester Mass in 1786 led by revolutionary \war capitan Daniel ShAy |
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| part of the Constitution that says it is the supreme law of the lansd to wich all judges are bound |
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| counted a slave as 3/5ths a person for voting reasons, this was repealed by 14th amendment |
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| James Madisons rough draft of the Constitution, especially his proposal that states would recieve representation in the national legislature proportionals to the population size |
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