American Government

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  1. 2. having a single legislative chamber.
  2. 3. was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.
  3. 6. a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
  4. 8. raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company
  5. 10. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
  6. 13. A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763.
  7. 14. the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
  8. 16. American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
  9. 17. having two branches or chambers.
  10. 19. an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
  11. 23. person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution
  12. 24. compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention, counts slaves as people
  13. 25. an ideology of being a citizen in a state as a republic under which the people hold popular sovereignty
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  1. 1. the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
  2. 4. the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
  3. 5. a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
  4. 7. was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States ...
  5. 9. The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election.
  6. 11. was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention ; favored small states
  7. 12. an advocate or supporter of federalism.
  8. 15. statute of 1689 confirming, with minor changes, the Declaration of Rights, declaring the rights and liberties of the subjects and settling the succession in William III and Mary II. British Dictionary definitions for Bill of Rights Expand.
  9. 18. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers
  10. 20. good sense and sound judgment in practical matters.
  11. 21. a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.
  12. 22. Rights that people supposedly have under natural law