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  1. 3. Congress could tax imports but not exports.
  2. 4. 1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He advocated creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt.
  3. 6. A system of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people
  4. 10. A 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats
  5. 11. Formal approval
  6. 15. A rebellion of French people against their king in 1789.
  7. 17. Opponents of the American Constitution at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption
  8. 21. Supporters of the U.S. Constitution at the time the states were contemplating its adoption.
  9. 22. The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population
  10. 23. The first ten amendments to the Constitution
  11. 24. 3rd president of the United States
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  1. 1. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by John Adams.
  2. 2. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people
  3. 5. 1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)
  4. 7. Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th amendment)
  5. 8. A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution
  6. 9. A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed
  7. 12. A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
  8. 13. America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of the press "ought not to be restrained"
  9. 14. Financial support from the government
  10. 16. Led by Thomas Jefferson, believed people should have political power, favored strong STATE governments, emphasized agriculture, strict interpretation of the Constitution, pro-French, opposed National Bank
  11. 18. A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
  12. 19. Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on population in the other house
  13. 20. "Large state" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress. The plan favored larger states and thus prompted smaller states to come back with their own plan for apportioning representation.