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  1. 2. Powers refers to powers that are not specifically granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
  2. 4. a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.
  3. 7. an advocate of a federal union between the American colonies after the Revolution and of the adoption of the us constitution
  4. 12. a person who opposed the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
  5. 16. Government a theory of governance in which the government only has those powers delegated to it by law, often through a written constitution.
  6. 19. Locke an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of liberalism”
  7. 20. Washingtonan American soldier, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
  8. 21. American statesman, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution,
  9. 22. a preliminary or preparatory statement; an introduction
  10. 23. Clause A clause within the United States Constitution that grants Congress the power to pass whatever laws are deemed “necessary and proper”
  11. 25. Jefferson an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
  12. 26. System a state governed as a single entity in which the central government is ultimately supreme
  13. 28. a political ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic.
  14. 29. Compromise an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
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  1. 1. of Powers a model that divides the government into separate branches, each of which has separate and independent powers.
  2. 3. Democracy A democratic system of government in which individual rights and freedoms are officially recognized and protected
  3. 5. Republic The political philosophy that a government should be subject to the will of the people
  4. 6. Compromise the Great Compromise solved the issue of the representation of states by creating two houses. This is called a bicameral legislature.
  5. 8. of Law a principle of governance in which all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the state itself, are accountable to the law
  6. 9. and Balances a system in U.S. government that ensures no one branch becomes too powerful.
  7. 10. de Montesquieu a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher
  8. 11. of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
  9. 12. of Confederationan agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government.
  10. 13. Contract Theory is another descriptive theory about society and the relationship between rules and laws, and why society needs them.
  11. 14. Hamilton
  12. 15. Right of Kings a political doctrine in defense of monarchical absolutism, which asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
  13. 17. Hobbes an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan
  14. 18. Sovereignty a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people.
  15. 24. form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control and regulation over public and private life
  16. 27. Madisonan American statesman, diplomat, expansionist, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the 4th president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.