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  1. 3. plan proposed by Edmund Randolph. Wanted a bicameral congress.
  2. 7. life, liberty, and property
  3. 8. people who supported the constitution, wanted a strong national gov., believed a large republic could best protect individual liberty, believed a bill of rights was unnecessary.
  4. 9. person who argued that government power should be divided between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
  5. 11. In 1775 the Second Continental Congress called for the writing of a formal document of American independence.
  6. 15. a document signed by Charles I of England that limited the powers of the English monarch.
  7. 16. As a result of the Boston Tea Party, British close off part of Boston.
  8. 17. suggested by Roger Sherman, based on states population.
  9. 18. people who opposed the constitution, feared a too-strong national gov., believed only a small republic could protect rights, and believed a bill of rights was necessary to protect individual liberty.
  10. 20. Indirect election of the president by the electoral college, 4 year term.
  11. 22. a charter agreed to by King John of England that granted nobles certain rights and restricted the Kings power.
  12. 23. this term refers to a broad set of ideas about representative government that can be traced back to Ancient Greece and Rome.
  13. 24. Created by James Wilson and Roger Sherman, for every 5 slaves, the state would relieve a count of 3 people towards their representatives.
  14. 25. British impose taxes on tea, lead, glass, and paper, called townshend acts; Patriots dressed as Indians dump 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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  1. 1. Tax on paper goods, required tax
  2. 2. document that stated that English monarchs would no longer be able to enact laws, raise taxes, or keep an army without parliaments consent.
  3. 4. one branch of gov., congress, responsible for making laws. Each state had one vote in congress. No executive or judicial branch.
  4. 5. One house congress, all states have an equal vote.
  5. 6. an intellectual movement that took place in Europe during the eighteenth century.
  6. 10. two house congress
  7. 12. British against French for control of North America
  8. 13. the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution concerning basic individual liberties.
  9. 14. one house congress
  10. 19. British soldiers accidentally opened fire on colonists, killing 3 and wounding 2.
  11. 21. A book written by Thomas Paine. This book persuasively made the case to break from England.