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Judiciary Act of 1789
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created a judicial structure that has remained essentially intact.
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cabinet
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a council of high-ranking members of government
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national bank
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in the United States, an ordinary private bank operating within a specific regulatory structure, which may or may not operate nationally, under the supervision of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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loose (broad) interpretation
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the federal government can take reasonable actions that the constitution does not specifically forbid
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strict (narrow) interpretation
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people who favor strict constitution think that that federal government should do only what the constitution specifically says it can do
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Federalists
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Statesmen and public figures supporting the proposed Constitution of the United States between 1787 and 1789.
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Democratic-Republicans
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It stood in opposition to the Federalist Party and controlled the Presidency and Congress, and most states, from 1801 to 1824, during the First Party System. It split after the 1824 presidential election into two parties: the Democratic Party and the short-lived National Republican Party.
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two-party systems
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a political system dominated by two major parties.
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protective tariff
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a tax on imported goods that is intended to protect a nation's businesses from foreign competition.
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Whiskey Rebellion
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a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who used their leftover grain and corn in the form of whiskey as a medium of exchange were forced to pay a new tax. The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to increase central government power, in particular to fund his policy of assuming the war debt of those states which had failed to pay. The farmers who resisted, many war veterans, contended that they were fighting for the principles of the American Revolution, in particular against taxation without local representation, while the Federal government maintained the taxes were the legal expression of the taxation powers of Congress.
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