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| articles of confederation |
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| a weak constitution that governed america during the revolutionary war. |
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| a human right based on nature or God. |
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| constitutional convention |
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| meeting in philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constituion. |
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| a 1787 rebellion in which ex-revolutionary war soldiers attempted to prevent foreclosures of farms as a result of high interest rates and taxes. |
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| proposal to create a strong national government. |
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| proposal to create a weak national government. |
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| plan to have a popularly elected house based on state population and a state-selected senate, with two members for each state. |
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| a government in which elected representatives make deciesions. |
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| the power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional. |
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| government authority shared by national and state governments. |
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| authority shared by three branches of government. |
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| powers given to the national government. |
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| powers given to the state government alone. |
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| powers shared by the national and state governments. |
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| constitutional authority is shared by three different branches of government. |
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| group with a distinct political interest. |
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| those who favor a strong national government. |
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| those who favor a weak national government |
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| an order to produce an arrested person before a judge |
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| a law that decclares a person, without a trial, to be guilty of a crime. |
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| a law that makes an act criminal although the act was legal when it was committed. |
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| first 10 amendments to the constitution. |
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| new provision in the constitution that has been ratified by the states. |
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| executive's ability to block a particular provision in a bill passed by legislature. |
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