Unit 2 Vocab

3. a one house legislature branch (example: New Jersey Plan)
5. Defending the Constitution campaigned by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
6. an universal set of moral principles that can be applied to any culture or system of justice.
8. Favored a ose association of slates ike i was under the Articles of Confederation and pro Bill of Rights
9. the idea that government should be based on an established set of principles.
11. a theory that stated people in society agreed to give up some their freedom to government in exchange for security and order. In addition, if a government acted contrary to the general will, the people had the freedom to break the social contract and create a new one.
13. Basic individual rights of people such as the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
16. Roman ideal on the willingness to serve one's country.
17. the principle that the people are the ultimate source of the authority and legitimacy of a government

1. Favored a strong central/federal government, pro Constitution
2. rights that all people have by virtue of being a human such as the right to life itself, liberty, and the ownership of property.
4. was a formal proclamation that the American colonies would now be an independent country separate from Great Britain.
7. A political system in which the powers exercised by the government are restricted, usually by a written constitution.
10. The idea that the powers of a government should be split between two or more strongly independent branches of government to prevent any one person or group from gaining too much power.
12. A system of goverment in which power is divided between a central government and smaller regional governments
14. A system in which each branch of government can limit the power of the other branches.
15. a two house legislature branch (example: Virginia Plan)