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- 3. powers saved for the states in our system of federalism, guaranteed in the 9th Amendment to the Constitution
- 5. supporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong central government with limited government and checks and balances
- 7. king/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political – often times tied to divine right of kings (authority from God)
- 11. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 20. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
- 21. considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
- 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. explains the purposes of the Constitution, and defines the powers of the new government as originating from the people of the United States
- 2. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power
- 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
- 6. belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 14. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
- 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