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  1. 3. ___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
  2. 4. 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
  3. 7. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
  4. 10. king/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political – often times tied to divine right of kings (authority from God)
  5. 12. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
  6. 13. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
  7. 14. ______________belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority
  8. 15. I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution that gives Congress the right to pass all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out the other powers listed in Article I
  9. 17. the government is not all powerful; its powers are limited, and the acts of the government are those willed by the people Constitution were written
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  1. 1. Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States; essential to the writing and ratification of the Constitution; he also wrote the first 10 amendments to the Constitution that were ratified as the Bill of Rights
  2. 2. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power
  3. 5. compromise reached in writing the Constitution to satisfy both small and large states by having one house of Congress with an equal number of representatives for each state and the other house’s membership determined by a state’s population
  4. 6. 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
  5. 8. french writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful
  6. 9. of power
  7. 11. first ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the
  8. 16. rights and liberties of the people