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| Agreement that, in Congress, States be represented equally in the Senate and by population in the House | Connecticut Compromise |
| Those for whom the Constitution reprsented a too powerful central government | Anti-Federalists |
| Called for representation in Congress by population or by the amount of money given to the central governmnet | Virginia Plan |
| Statement that Parliament forced the king to sign, declaring that even a monarch must obey the law of the land | Petition of Right |
| Idea that government should serve the will of the people | Representative Government |
| Organized by people to whoom the king had made a grant of land available and cojld be settled and goverened in whatever manner thney saw fit | proprietary colonies |
| First English charter of liberties which included such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law | Magna Carta |
| Organized action to change opponents' behavior by refusing to buyor sell their goods | Boycott |
| The colonists organized a boycott of all trade with England, hoping to force the _________ of restrictive laws. | Repeal |
| Some the 14 colonies were established by _____________. under a grant of authority from the English crown. | Charter |
| From its one chamber, the ____________ legislature of the Second Continental Congress exercised both legislature and excutive powers. | Unicameral |
| No one opposed _______ of the Constitution more vehemently than Patrick Henry. | Ratification |
| The government set up by the Articles of Confederation had________ | only a legislative branch, consisting of a unicameral Congress. |
| The idea that the people have the right to abolish an abusive and unresponsive government was FIRST formally expressed by Americans in the _______ | Declaration of Independence |
| What influenced the Framers in the development of the Constitution? | the Articles of Confederation |
| Much of the Declaration of Independence consists of __________ | complaints of the wrongs done to the colonists |
| After the Revolutionary War, the National Government | Proved too weak to deal with growing economic and political problems. |
| Which is included in the Declaration of Independence? | People have certain natural rights, Government can exist only with the people's permisssion, and the people may change or abolish the government. |
| What did the delegates agree on at the Philadelphia Convention? | to draft a new consitution |
| The Federalist Papers were written to | win support for the Constitution in New York |
| A major objective of both Annapolis Convention and the Philidelphia Convention was to ________ | Recommend a federal plan for regulating interstate trade |
| In Benjamin Franklin's opinion, the final Constitution created by the delegates can be best summarized as | as near perfect as possible |
| Much of the work the framers centered around the proposals that had been set out in | the Virginia Plan |
| What influenced the Framers in developing the Constitution | British tradition, State Constitutions, and John Locke's Tow Treatises of Government |
| What issue did the Great Compromise resolve? | reprsentation in the legislature |
| The objections of the Anti-Federalists can be Best summed up as | a fear that the government would have too much power and the people, too little power |
| What characteristics of a state did the English colonies possess? | Government, population, and territory |
| The founders used the ideas of Charles de Montesquieu because they believed that seperation of powers was important in order to _____ | prevent the misuse of power |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that people | would give up some of their freedoms to benefit the majority |
| What is a basic concept of the Magna Carta? | Ordered Government |
| The Three-Fifths Compromise resolved the issue of | whether larger states could have more respresenatives in Congress |
| Why is it ironic that Virginia was one of the last States to ratify the Consitution? | Virginia delegate James Madison contributed more to the document than any other delegate. |
| When crafting the new Consitution, the Framers drew from their experiences with which of the following? | Their own State governments, the writings of Rousseau and Locke, and the governments of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Both the Connecticut Compromise (Great Compromise) and the Three-Fifths Compromise were crucial to the states with small populations becasue_______? | without them, the small states wold have carried little weight in the new government |
| What contributed the most toward the realization that the nation needed a stronger central government? | Economic Issues |
