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- 3. provided for a bicameral legislature, with representation in the House of Representatives according to population and in the Senate by equal numbers for each state.
- 4. He is the only person to sign four of the great state papers of the United States related to the founding: the Continental Association, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution.
- 10. An England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe.
- 11. /Imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
- 13. /A remarkable political philosopher, served as the second President of the United States
- 14. One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, he represented the United States in France during the American Revolution, and he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
- 15. /That the government should serve the will of the people had also been developing in England for several centuries.
- 16. / a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
- 18. /A union of sovereign groups or states united for purposes of common action.
- 19. /A principal's approval of an act of its agent that lacked the authority to bind the principal legally.
- 22. An agreement among the 13 states of the United States of America, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government.
- 24. known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the creation of a settlement
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- 1. He was known as "The Chancellor" after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years
- 2. /set the terms for ratifying the Constitution.
- 5. /The principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
- 6. / a person selected to represent a group of people in some political assembly of the United States.
- 7. A legislature that consists of only one house
- 8. Government is restricted in what it may do, and every individual has certain rights that the government cannot take away.
- 9. a standing army in peace- time, except with the consent of Parliament.
- 12. /made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it.
- 17. An act of nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organization, or country as an expression of protest.
- 20. / Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
- 21. /Limited the king's power in several ways.
- 23. /The Great Charter at Runnymede in 1215.