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- 4. Powers retained by the states under the Constitution.
- 5. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
- 6. Rule by the people.
- 10. The supporters of the proposed Constitution. Believed in strong central government
- 12. Gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, with Indian tribes, and among the various states (Article I, Section 8).
- 13. a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 15. Supreme Court decision upholding the right of Congress to create a bank.
- 16. an agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves in apportioning Representatives, Presidential electors, and direct taxes.
- 18. powers of U.S. government which have not been explicitly granted by the Constitution but that is implied by the necessary and proper clause
- 20. Right of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal.
- 23. opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and the ratification of the Constitution.
- 25. Relied in part on the writings of John Locke in asserting that people had certain natural (or unalienable) rights that government could not take away.
- 26. specific powers granted to Congress by the United States Constitution
- 27. gave the royal governor the right to select the upper house of the Massachusetts legislature
- 28. assures that the Constitution and federal laws and treaties take precedence over state law.
- 29. View that states have strong independent authority to resist federal rules under the Constitution.
- 30. Five colonists killed by British soldiers; led Parliament to repeal all Townshend Act taxes except for tea tax
- 31. Delegated the First Continental Congress
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- 1. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government
- 2. required colonists to house British soldiers in their private homes, even during times of peace.
- 3. form of democracy in which the people decide on policy initiatives directly.
- 7. power of the courts of a country to examine the actions of the legislative, executive, and administrative arms of the government and to determine whether such actions are consistent with the constitution.
- 8. To formally withdraw from a nation-state.
- 9. Process for selecting state judges whereby the original nomination is by appointment, and subsequent retention is by a retention election.
- 11. acted as the common government of the states between 1775 and 1781.
- 14. Gives Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to the powers enumerated in Article I, Section 8
- 17. requires a "person held to service or labor" (usually a slave, apprentice, or indentured servant) who flees to another state to be returned to the owner in the state from which that person escaped.
- 19. Imposed new taxes on imports; led to rallying cry “no taxation without representation”
- 21. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the regional (for example, state) governments.
- 22. the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
- 24. Powers held by both the national and state governments in a federal system.