Government Ch.2 Flashcards
Bicameral
2 houses in legislative branch
Charter colonies
Colonies that were self governed (the people)
Constitution
A body of fundamental principles set according to a state or group of individuals to be governed.
Limited Government
Government doesn’t have all the power
Petition of Rights
An idea established in England that even a monarch had to obey the law
Proprietary
A colony run by a proprietor (land lord)
Representative Government
Government that should serve the will of the people.
Three-Fifths Compromise
Slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person in voting and also had a head tax of three-fifths as well.
Anti-Federalists
Opposed to the new Constitution made by James Madison
Commerce and Slave Compromise
Congress was forbidden from taxing exports and could not regulate slave trade for 20 years.
Confederation
All local agencies had the power not the central government (States)
Federalists
In favor of the new constitution
Manga Carta
Principle that the monarchy was not absolute
Philadelphia Convention
The meeting where all leaders in America were to revise the constitution. (Start it over and make new one)
Quorum
An amount of people that must be at a assembly for it to be valid.
Royal Colonies
Colonies run by the king
Unicameral
Just one house in the legislative branch
Articles of Confederation
First constitution of the USA drafted during the revolutionary war in 1777.
Great Compromise
Represented that the constitution would have all states based on population in the lower house and equal representation in the upper.
Framers
Group of delegates sent to Philadelphia in 1787
New Jersey Plan
A plan made by William Patterson that contended with the plan made by James Madison.
Popular Sovereignty
The people Are able to choose the the make up of the government through each states representatives.
Ratification
When all 13 states had to choose either the new constitution being presented or stay with the old one.
Second Continental Congress
The first time that all colonies United!
Virginia plan
A plan made by James Madison to make a bicameral legislative branch.
Albany Plan of Union
Attempt to address colonial trade and unite during French and Indian war.
