Chapter 5 Terms

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Government by elected, representative assembly

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Legislative government

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A principle that limits government to only those powers granted by law

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Limited government

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An act of protest in which individuals withhold their business or support

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Boycott

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The formal document, written by Thomas Jefferson, which established the principles of government that jus- tified the colonies’ break with England

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Declaration of Independence

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Theory of government that states that government is formed by the consent of the governed

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Social contract

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The formal approval process of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty.

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Ratification

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A legislature made up of only one house

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Unicameral

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the first representative assembly in the New World.

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House of burgesses

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Parliament passed a series of taxes and trade restrictions on the colonies that produced more resentment than revenue from America.

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Stamp act in 1765

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document guaranteeing basic civil liberties to all British subjects.

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Petition of right

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Wrote a drAft for the declaration

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Thomas Jefferson

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The first person to sign

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John Hancock

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religious outgrowth of the Enlightenment

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Deism

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formalized the status quo by proposing a central government with charac- teristics very similar to the pro- visional Second Continental Congress.

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Articles of confederation

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George Washington held a meeting here , was also his home

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Mount Vernon

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but it provided the setting for a momentous invitation.

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Annapolis convention

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the delegates lay four months of difficult debates and tough questions.

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Constitutional convention

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was unanimously elected to head the convention.

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George Washington

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Father of the Constitution

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James Madison

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How the states were to be represented was surely the most difficult question that the delegates had to grapple with.

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Representation

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became the basis for much of the Constitution.

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Virginia plan

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advocated a unicameral Congress, maintaining the one-state one-vote principle of the Confederation.

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New Jersey

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proposed making representation in the lower house based on state population, whereas representation in the Senate would be equal for all states regardless of size.

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Connecticut compromise

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next divisive issue that confronted the delegates of the Constitutional Convention was whether slaves should be counted in determining representation for slave-holding states.

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Slavery

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Under this unusual settlement, slaves would count as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representa- tion in the House, but slave states would also have to pay taxes on them at the same rate.

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Three fifths compromise

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Part of the original motivation be- hind calling the Philadelphia Convention was the inability of the Confederation to deal with inter- state and international trade.

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Commerce

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The date the delegates gathered to sign the official engrossed copy of the Constitution.

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Sept 17, 1787

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advocates of the Constitution

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Federalists

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who opposed the new plan of government.

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Anti federalist

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answered the objections of the Anti-Federalists by carefully explaining and forcefully defending constitutional provisions of power and predicting dire consequences if the Con- stitution were rejected.

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The federalist papers

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Organized government that provides order and leadership in localized com- munities such as counties, municipalities, towns, and cities

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Local governments