Isaiah Llanas

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  1. 3. powers saved for the states in our system of federalism, guaranteed in the 9th Amendment to the Constitution
  2. 5. supporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong central government with limited government and checks and balances
  3. 7. king/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political – often times tied to divine right of kings (authority from God)
  4. 11. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
  5. 13. English political philosopher whose Social Contract Theory believed that in order to live together, individuals in a society give up their natural rights to a higher authority for the sake of protection
  6. 15. government is defined by law and serves the people; the law is above everyone and it applies to everyone, whether ruler or the ruled
  7. 16. group of people who feared the new government created by Constitution; gave too much power to the national government at the expense of individual rights
  8. 18. 3rd president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence; he did not take part in writing the Constitution because he was in France at the time. He was a strong advocate for the addition of a Bill of Rights
  9. 19. French writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful
  10. 20. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
  11. 21. considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
  12. 22. in order for man to live in groups, he must give up some of his freedom to the government in exchange for protection of his natural rights
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  1. 1. explains the purposes of the Constitution, and defines the powers of the new government as originating from the people of the United States
  2. 2. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power
  3. 4. chosen to preside at the Constitutional Convention; he later became the first president of the United States; he set precedent by stepping down after two terms and initiating a peaceful transition of power
  4. 6. belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority
  5. 8. power is held at the national level, with very little power being held in political subdivisions, such as provinces, states, counties, parishes, or tow
  6. 9. each branch of government is subject to a number of constitutional restraints, or checks, by the other branches so no single branch becomes too powerful
  7. 10. English political philosopher whose Social Contract Theory believed that in order to live together, individuals in a society give up their natural rights to a higher authority for the sake of protection
  8. 12. compromise between slave states and free states to count three-fifths of the slave population in a state when allocating how many representatives a state was entitled to in the House of Representatives
  9. 14. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
  10. 17. type of democracy based on the protection of individual rights from the tyranny of the majority and on the consent of the governed to establish political authority