AP Government Chapter 2

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  1. 6. person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and thereafter allied with Thomas Jefferson's Antifederal Party, which opposed extension of the powers of the federal government
  2. 8. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies
  3. 10. proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787. States with a large population, like Virginia, would thus have more representatives than smaller states.
  4. 11. government gets all its power from the people
  5. 13. court order to a person (prison warden) or agency (institution) holding someone in custody to deliver the imprisoned individual to the court issuing the order
  6. 15. proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
  7. 18. 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 Constitution
  8. 19. formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain
  9. 20. proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.
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  1. 1. document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed. It was drafted by the Constitutional Convention and later supplemented by the Bill of Rights and other amendments.
  2. 2. The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, in this case the Judiciary Act of 1789.
  3. 3. used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch
  4. 4. name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt
  5. 5. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed
  6. 7. United States' first constitution, and was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect
  7. 9. a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics
  8. 12. The power of the courts to determine whether acts of Congress, and by implication the executive, are in accord with the U.S. Constitution.
  9. 14. state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch
  10. 16. first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  11. 17. collection of 85 articles and essays written (under the pseudonym Publius) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution