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21 Cards in this Set
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Limited government
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Basic principle of American government which states that government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away
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Representative government
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System of government in which Public policies are made by officials selected by the voters and held accountable in periodic elections
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Magna Carta
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Great charter that established that the power of the monarchy was not absolute and guaranteed trial by jury and due process of law to the nobility
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Petition of right
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Document prepared by Parliament and signed by king Charles I; challenged the idea of divine right of kings and declared that even the monarch was subject to the laws of the land
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Charter
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A city's basic law its constitution; a written grant of authority from the king
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Bicameral
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An adjective describing a legislative body composed of two chambers
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Proprietary
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Organized by a proprietor (a person to whom the king had made a grant of land)
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Unicameral
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An adjective describing a legislative body with one chamber
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Confederation
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A joining of several groups for a common purpose
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Delegate
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Those powers repressed, implied, or inherent granted to the National Government by the constitution
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Boycott
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Refusal to buy or sell certain products or services
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Repeal
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Recall
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Popular sovereignty
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Basic principle of the American system of government which asserts that the people are the source of any and all government power, and government can exist only with the consent of the governed
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Articles of Confederation
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Plan of government adopted by the continental congress after the American Revolution established a "league of friendship" among states but allowed a few important powers to central government
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Ratification
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Formal approval, final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty
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Presiding officer
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Chair
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Connecticut compromise
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Agreement during the constitutional convention that congress should be composed of a senate in which states would be represented equally, and a House, in which representation would be based on a States population
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Three-fifths compromise
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An agreement at the constitutional convention to count a slave as three-fifths of a person when determining the population of a state
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Federalists
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Those persons who supported the ratification of the constitution in 1787-1788
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Anti-Federalist
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Those persons who opposed the ratification of the constitution in 1787-1788
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Quorum
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Least number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business; majority
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