Chapter 6 Key Terms

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Alexander Hamilton

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Was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher. Aide to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, he was a leader of nationalist forces calling for a new Constitution; he was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and wrote most of the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation.

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The Founding Fathers

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Within the large group known as "the Founding Fathers", there are two key subsets, the Signers (who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776) and the Framers (who were delegates to the Federal Convention and took part in framing or drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States). Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, etc.

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The Virginia Plan

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Was a proposal by Virginia delegates, drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. he Virginia Plan was notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the convention and, in particular, for setting forth the idea of population-weighted representation in the proposed national legislature.

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The Great Compromise

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Was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.

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James Madison

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Was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817) and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. proposed Virginia Plan.

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Sovereignty

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Is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory.

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Separation of Powers

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Is a model for the governance of both democratic & federation states.

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Federalists

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Describes several political beliefs around the world. Also, it may refer to the concept of federalism or the type of government called a federation. In early United States history, the Federalist Party was one of the first political parties; its members or supporters called themselves Federalists.

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Anti Federalist

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Opposes the concept of Federalism. In short, Anti-Federalists dictate that the central governing authority of a nation should be equal or inferior to, but not having more power than, its sub-national states (state government).

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The Federalist Papers

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A series of 85 articles or essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.

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The Bill of Rights

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A list of the most important rights of the citizens of a country. The purpose of these bills is to protect those rights against infringement by the government.

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The Cabinet

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A body of high ranking members of the government, typically representing the executive branch.

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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures resolved to not abide by Alien and Sedition Acts.

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Whiskey Rebellion

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was a tax protest in Pennsylvania in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. The conflict was rooted in western dissatisfaction with a 1791 excise tax on whiskey. The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to centralize and fund the national debt. From the national perspective the issue was how laws passed by the Congress would be enforced.

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Citizen Genet

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Was a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution.

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Jay's Treaty

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Was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war, solving many issues left over from the American Revolution and the Treaty of Paris of 1783, and opening ten or more years of mostly peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars that had begun in 1793.

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Pinckney's Treaty

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Established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. It also defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River.

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The Quasi War

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Was an undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800.

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The XYZ Affair

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Was a diplomatic event that strained relations between France and the United States, and led to an undeclared naval war called the Quasi-War.

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Of the interface file and the implementation file, which may be directly compiled?

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Neither. Only an intermediate file generated by the preprocessor can be directly compiled. The implementation file name is specified on the compiler command line, however, which is passed to the preprocessor.

The preprocessor responds to #include directives in the implementation file, by adding the contents of specified interface files to the intermediate file.

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Aaron Burr

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Served as the third Vice President of the United States (1801–1805) under President Thomas Jefferson, and was the first Vice President to never serve as President. He fought in the Revolutionary War, was an important political figure in the nation's early history, and spent much of his career after politics engaging in a number of controversial adventures.

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The Judiciary Acts 1789

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Was a landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary.