Constitution And The New Republic

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1. Alexander Hamilton

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-was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher
-1755 1804
-support for a flexible constitution, a protective tariff and a national bank,

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2. The Founding Fathers

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-political leaders who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or otherwise took part in the American Revolution in winning American independence from Great Britain, or who participated in framing and adopting the United States Constitution in 1787-1788, or in putting the new government under the Constitution into effect
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- the men who made Aerica the nation it is today.

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3. The Virginia Plan

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- proposed by virgina delegates
-1787
-setting the overall agenda for debate in the convention and for setting forth the idea of population-weighted representation in the proposed national legislature.

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4. The Great Compromise

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-eement 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
-1787
-proposed a bicameral legislature, resulting in the current United States Senate and House of Representatives.
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5. James Madison

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- American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States and is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
-1751 –1836
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