VOCAB REVIEW Flashcards
Country party has best strategy and opportunity to preserve liberty against the “Court party”
Commonwealth Ideology
citizens of the political state govern themselves rather than submit to a monarch, despot, oligarchy
Republic
The people choose
Democracy
Rule of Law: Laws should apply equally to all
Generality
laws should not punish behavior that was legal at the time
Prospectivity
Law must be known and published before people can obey or disobey it.
Publicity
Law must be generally acceptable by those who live them
Consent
When laws are applied they must be administered impartially
Due Process
Dividing powers between national and state governments
Federalism
Power of Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of laws
Judicial Review
Founded the Democratic-Republican Party and promoted the idea of a small federal government.
Thomas Jefferson
Economic regulations passed by British Parliament to enforce trade regulations in the colonies: all trade had to go through British or colonial merchants and be shipped in British or colonial ships with the end goal to generate large exports from England, with a few imports, so that gold and silver would floew into the motherland
Navigation Acts
British Government outlaws Westward expansion
Proclamation line of 1763
Required purchase of govt. stamps for a variety of legal and comerical documents, became the most infamout of the tax squables
Stamp Act
The declaration stated that Parliament’s authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament’s authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.
Declaratory Act of 1766
British troops fire into crowd of colonists, kill five, John Adams defends soldiers
Boston Massacre
Known for “give me liberty or give me death” speech in Virginia House of Burgesses, was an Anti-Fed who pushed for a bill of rights to be added to the Constitution after its ratification
Patrick Henry
The battle after the crossing of the Delaware, Continental army agains hessians, all hessians captured. Huge turning point in war
Battle of Trenton
Battle that ended British Hudson River campaign, convinced French to enter the war.
Battle of Saratoga
free slaves at some date in future and prohibit additions to slavery. Cannot be considered seriously in U.S.
Gradual emancipation
See Abigal Adams
Abigal Adams
A legislature in which there are two separate divisions or houses
Bicameral legislature
established religious freedom
virginia act for establishing religious freedom
called for the governmental development of the west based on creating self giverning republics that would be systematically added to the Union
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
