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included in the declaration of independence: Statement of what principles

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Democratic

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Included in the Declaration of Independence:List of grievances against the what of England

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King

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Included in the declaration of independence: Statement declaring

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Independence

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The purpose of what is to secure our what

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Government… Unalienable

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What are those right?

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

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Who’s control did the colonist want a representative government free from?

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Britain

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What was a prerequisite for voting in every colony

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Ownership of property

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The Puritans believed who should create and maintain conditions that would make it possible for who to perform its functions

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State… Church

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What form of government is more like an alliance than a government and is one in which local governments are most powerful

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Confederate

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What form of government is the current form of the US government and is one in which a written constitution defines the power divisions

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Federal

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What form of government is one in which the federal government is most powerful

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Unitary

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What are these three types of government classified according to among the various departments

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Distribution of power

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What government is one that has no legal sanction

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De facto

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What legitimize the actions of the second Continental Congress and establish the Congress of confederation

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The articles of confederation

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Under the articles who was the chief agency of the national government; what to branches were not a part

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Congress… Executive and judicial

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Congress of confederation: what body

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Unicameral

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Congress of confederation: Operated on principle of what vote per what

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One… State

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Congress of confederation: Could not regulate what or levy what

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Commerce… Taxes

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Congress of confederation: Could only raise money by one or by what it from the what

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Borrowing… Requesting… States

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The amount each state was to send was based on what value

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The value of their improved lands

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Government rested on the wet rather than the what under the articles

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States… People

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What was the most serious defect of the articles of confederation

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That it required a unanimous agreement of the states for amendment

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What convention was called to solve problems of interstate trade

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Annapolis convention

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What convention was called to revise the articles of confederation

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Constitutional

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What is the first act of the delegates to The constitutional convention

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To discard the articles of confederation

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The leading convention delegates agreed that the new government should: be what form

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Republican

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The leading convention delegates agreed that the new government should: have how many branches

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Three

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The leading convention delegates agreed that the new government should: what only men who were property owner should have

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Right to vote

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What are five major institutions of the US government

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House of representative, senate, president, Supreme Court, electoral college

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The facts that the United States is a what the What is supreme and that the Constitution provides for the what of what are three basic constitutional principles necessary for our existence as a nation

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Republic… Constitution… Division of powers

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Only how many states was required for the ratification of the Constitution

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Nine rather than all 13

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What did the first 10 amendments to the constitution limit

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The power of the federal government

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Which amendment protects us against the establishment of an official denomination and protects the church from government control; it does not very religious activity

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The first amendment

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The Supreme Court decisions been in prayer and Bible reading we’re not based on two things but we’re rather based on personal and misinterpretation name the two things

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Precedent or historical fact

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What was the first 10 amendments to the constitution called

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Bill of rights

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What were the powers belong to the federal government

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delegated

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What were the powers blonde states

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Reserved

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What were the powers shared by federal and state government

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Concurrent

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What powers allow Congress to pass laws necessary for carrying out the other powers

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Implied powers

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What are the ideas that man’s in alienable rights are life liberty and property and the purpose of government is to protect these rights

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Natural rights

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What is the idea that a ruler is to govern justly the people are to submit to him and obedience

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Social contract

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What is the idea that the state is to serve the people and be responsive to the will of the majority

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Popular sovereignty

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What is the idea that members of the parliament looked out for the interest of the entire empire

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Virtual representation

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What was written to explain Richard Henry Lee’s resolution

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The declaration of independence

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What is a government in which the citizens elect or aquiesce to representatives who are charged with the responsibility of admiration in accordance with the requirements

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Republic

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