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27 Cards in this Set
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Robert Morris
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-Representative from Connecticut
-Proposed collecting a 5% tax on imported goods to help pay the national debt |
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John Adams
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-Sent to Britain to resolve Treaty of Paris problems
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John Jay
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American secretary of foreign affairs
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Daniel Shays
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-Lead Shays' Rebellion
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James Madison
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-Virginia planter
-American active in movement for change for Articles of Confederation |
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Alexander Hamilton
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-New York lawyer
-American active in movement for change for Articles of Confederation |
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Edmund Randolph
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-Former governor of Virgina
-Attended Constitutional Convention |
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William Paterson
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-Proposed New Jersey Plan
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Roger Sherman
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-Great Compromise
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John Locke
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-Believed all people have natural rights to life, liberty, and death
-Government based on a contract between people and government |
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Baron de Montesquieu
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-All powers of government should be separated and balanced against each other
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Patrick Henry
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-Against proposed Constitution
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bicameral
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consisting of two houses, or chambers, especially in a legislature
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constitution
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a formal plan of government
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compromise
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agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants
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depreciate
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to fall in value
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depression
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a period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment
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amendment
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addition to formal document such as the Constitution
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checks and balances
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the system in which each branch of government has a check on the other two branches so that no one branch becomes too powerful
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Enlightenment
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movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society
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federalism
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the sharing of power between federal and state governments
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executive branch
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the branch of government, headed by the president, that carries out the nation's laws and policies
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judicial branch
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the branch of government, including the federal court system, that interprets the nation's laws
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legislative branch
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the branch of government that makes the nation's laws
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ordiance
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a law of regulation
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ratify
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to give official approval to go
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republic
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a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
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