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28 Cards in this Set
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Ordered Government
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Government created by early english colonists that pretty much resembled what they knew - the England Government. They established offices we still have today - sheriff, coroner, assessor, and justice of the peace, the grand jury, countise, townships, and several others.
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Limited Government
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Each individual has rights that the government cannot take away.
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Representative Government
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Government should serve the will of the people.
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Magna Carta
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Included rights such as trial by jury and due process of law, protection against the arbitrary taking of life and liberty.
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Petition of Right
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Limited the King's power - the king no longer may imprison or otherwise punish any person but by the lawful judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land.
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English Bill of Rights
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Prohibited a standing army in peacetime. Required that all parliamentary elections be free.
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Charter
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A written grant of authority from the king.
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Bicameral
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To house of representatives.
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Propietary
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Organized by a person who the king had made a grant of land.
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Uni-cameral
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One house of represenatives.
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What were the Charter Colonies?
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Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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Confederation
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A joining of several groups for a common purpose.
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Albany Plan of Union
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Proposed formation of an annual congress of represenatives from each of the thirteen colonies.
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What is the significance of Ancient Babylon, Greece, and Rome?
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Democracy originated in Ancient Greece, "Eye for an Eye" in Babylon, representative democracy in Rome.
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Describe the political beginnings/British influences on the United States.
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When the english colonists first settled, they saw the need for an orderly regulation of government. They created local governments based on those they knew in England.
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Main purpose of Declaration of Independance?
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To justify the revolution.
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Analyze ideas of Declaration of Independence.
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Announces the Independance of the United States, also speaks of the repeated injuries and usurpations that led the colonists to revolt.
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When was the critical period in American history?
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The time when we were forced to write a new constitution from scratch and have it ratified.
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What are the ten congressional powers under the articles of confederation?
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Make war and peace, recieve ambassidors, make treaties, borrow money, set up a money system, establish post offices, build a navy, raise an army by asking states for troops, fix uni-standars of weighs and measures, settle disputes among the states.
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Why did the founders want to change the articles of confederation?
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They wanted the power to tax, regulate trade between the states, lack of power to make states obey the Articles of Confederation or the laws it made.
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Framers
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Delegates who attended the Philadelphia Convention.
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Identify some of the sources from which some of the framers drew inspiration.
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Edmund Randolph's quote, "Resolved ... that a national Government ought to be established consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary."
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Explain how a constitution was the result of the compromises.
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Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan combined to form the Connecticut Plan.
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Besides the two compromises, what others had to be made at the consitutional convention?
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The selection of a president, treaty-making process, structure of national court system, amendment process.
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What did U.S. constitution do that articles did not?
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Set-up stronger central government.
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How many states were needed to ratify the constitution?
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9/13
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Who were federalists and anti-federalists and what did each want?
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Federalists wanted to ratify the constitution and anti-federalists did not.
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What was the purpose of the federalist papers?
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85 essays explaining the goals of the constitution.
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