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  1. 4. the Second Continental Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
  2. 6. an armed uprising in western Massachusetts from August 1786 to February 1787
  3. 8. a political system where the power and scope of state authority are strictly restricted by law, usually through a written constitution, to protect individual rights and liberties
  4. 9. adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing that the 13 American colonies were free, sovereign states no longer under British rule.
  5. 10. universal, fundamental, and inalienable rights that all people possess simply by virtue of being human, independent of any government, law, or custom
  6. 12. a form of government where political power rests with the citizens and their elected representatives rather than a king, queen, or hereditary monarch
  7. 13. an 17th- and 18th-century European intellectual and cultural movement that emphasized human reason, scientific inquiry, individual liberty, and skepticism of traditional authority
  8. 15. Thomas Jefferson used the political philosophy and natural rights theories of English philosopher John Locke to draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776
  9. 16. the supreme law of the land and the fundamental framework for America's federal government
  10. 17. the political doctrine that a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who serve as the true source of all political power and legitimacy
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  1. 1. served as the first written constitution of the United States, effective from March 1, 1781, until March 4, 1789
  2. 2. adopted by the Confederation Congress on July 13, 1787
  3. 3. an actual or implicit agreement among the members of an organized society, or between the citizens and their government, that defines and limits the rights and duties of each
  4. 5. to create a structured and orderly system for surveying, selling, and settling western lands
  5. 7. a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that functioned as the de facto national government of the American colonies and the United States from 1775 to 1781
  6. 11. any power not specifically delegated to the federal government—nor prohibited to the states—is reserved to the states or to the people
  7. 14. insisted on the separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of government as the indispensable condition of liberty