Ap Government Chapter 2

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Amendments3. Antifederalists 4. Articles of Confederation 5. Bill of attainder 6. Bill of Rights 7. Checks and balances 8. Coalition 9. Concurrent powers 10. Constitutional Convention 11. Enumerated powers 12. Ex post facto law 13. Faction 14. Federalism 15. Federalists 16. Great Compromise 17. Habeas corpus 18. Judicial review 19. Line-item veto 20. New Jersey Plan 21. Republic 22. Reserved powers23. Separation of powers 24. Shays’s Rebellion 25. Unalienable 26. Virginia Plan

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Amendments

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An article in the U.S Consitution giving change or addition.

The 18th amendment is the only amendment was repealed. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment was created in 1919.

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Antifederalists

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People who opposed the ratification of the Constitution. Believed in State superiority.

Bob was an Anti-federalist because he wanted to keep the Articles of Confederation.

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Articles of Confederation

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A weak constitution that governed america during the Revolutionary War.

The Articles of Confederation needed to be revised and split the nation into Federalists and Anti Federalists.

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Bill of attainder

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A law that declares a person, without its trial, to be guilty of a crime.

With the Bill of attainder, Bob was considered guilty even before he had a trial.

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Checks and Balances

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Authority shared by three branches of government

The jugicial, legislative, and executive beaches both agreed on the new law.

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Coalitioin

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An alliance of groups

The PETA group, and National Dog Helping group banded together against the National Dog Eater Group.

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concurrent powers

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Powers shared by the national and state government.

The state and national government had concurrent powers over taxes.

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Constitutional Convention

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Gathering to create the Constitution

They created the constitution at the constitutional convention.

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Enumerated powers

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The list of items found in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that set forth the authority of Congress.

The congress has enumerated powers given to them by the constitution.

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Ex Facto Law

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A law that makes illegal an act that was legal when committed, increases the penalties for an infraction after it has been committed, or changes the rules of evidence to make conviction easier.

Bob was not committed due to his crime being legal last year when he did it.

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faction

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A small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics.

In Divergent, the nation was separated into Factions based on beliefs of the people.

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Federalism

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The principle of believing that there should be a new document such as the consitution, instead of the Articles of Confederation.

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Federalists

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People who believed in federalism, that there should be a new document, the constitution.

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Great Compromise

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An agreement that was reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that defined the legislative structure and representation that each state will have.

Both large and small states agreed during the Great Compromise.

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Habeas corpos

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requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention.

The Rock County Jail must allow its inmates to go to court under Habeas corpus.

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Judicial review

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review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.

The Constitution was put under judicial review.

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Line-item veto

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the power of a president, governor, or other elected executive to reject individual provisions of a bill

President Obama has line-item veto.

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New Jersey Plan

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a proposal for the structure of the United States at the Constitutional Convention

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Republic

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a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

The u.s is a republic because we do not have a king.

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Reserved Powers

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In comparative federalism and comparative constitutionalism reserved powers or residual powers are those powers which are not "enumerate

The u.s has reserved powers.

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Separation of Powers

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an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies

The US has serperation of powers through the diffrent branches

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Shay's Rebellion

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An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays's followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system.

This rebellion caused everyone to want to add or change the articles of confederation

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Unalinable

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unable to be denied or disputed

After Congress accepts it amendments are usually unalinaible

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Virginia Plan

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A proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.