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James Madison

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Fourth president of United States. He is honored as the “Father of Constitution” for drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key author of the United States Bill of Rights. Upon the construction of federal and state government, he presents the Virginia Plan, promoting a two-house legislature. Over the Ratification debate, he was in the federalist camp.

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Alexander Hamilton

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founding father

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James Madison

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american guy

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Bill of Rights

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law

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Alien and Sedition Act of 1798

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law

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XYZ Affair

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political issue

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Whiskey Rebellion

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The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, which broke out when backcountry Pennsylvania farmers sought to block collection of the new tax on distilled spirits, reinforced this conviction. The “rebels” invoked the symbols of 1776, displaying liberty poles and banners reading “Liberty or Death.” But Washington dispatched 13,000 militiamen to western Pennsylvania (a larger force than he had commanded during the Revolution). He accompanied them part of the way to the scene of the disturbances, the only time in American history that a president has actually commanded an army in the fi eld. The “rebels” off ered no resistance

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Lewis and Clark

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names

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Embargo Act of 1807

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law

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Missouri Compromise

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law

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Indian Removal Act

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law

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“Corrupt Bargain “ of 1824

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political issue

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The Amistad Trial

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issue

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Nat Turner’s Rebellion

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war

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Frederick Douglass

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name

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Declaration of Sentiments

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Shakers

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organization

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American Colonization Society

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organization

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John Brown

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name

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Free Soil Party

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organization

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Emancipation Proclamation

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manifesto

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Marbury vs. Madison

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The first landmark decision of the Marshall Court in 1803. On the eve of leaving office, Adams had appointed a number of justices of the peace for the District of Columbia. Madison, Jefferson’s secretary of state, refused to issue commissions to these “midnight judges.” Four, including William Marbury, sued for their offices. Marshall’s decision declared unconstitutional the section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 that allowed the courts to order executive officials to deliver judges’ commissions. It exceeded the power of Congress as outlined in the Constitution and was therefore void. Marbury, in other words, may have been entitled to his commission, but the Court had no power under the Constitution to order Madison to deliver it. The Supreme Court had assumed the right to determine whether an act of Congress violates the Constitution—a power known as “judicial review