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| John Locke | Natural Rights, influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence |
| Natural Rights | Locke's belief that people are born with the right to life, liberty and property |
| Social Contract | Hobbe's idea of the relationship between the "state" and the governed |
| "No taxation without representation" | Colonists belief that it was unfair for Americans to have taxes placed on them without having representation in Parliament |
| Declaration of Independence | written by Thomas Jefferson stating reasons why Americans no longer wanted to be part of Britain |
| Thomas Paine | Colonist who wrote "Common Sense" support of independence |
| "Common Sense" | phamplet writtem by Thomas Paine to try to persuade loyalists to to support independence |
| Articles of Confederation | First constitution of the US; didn't work because it provided for a weak national government |
| Shay's Rebellion | An uprising against taxes in Massachusettes. showed that we needed a stronger national government |
| New Jersey Plan | plan created by smaller states; called for equal representation and a uni-cameral legislature |
| Virginia Plan | plan created by larger states, called for representation to be based on population and a bi-cameral legislature |
| Great Compromise | created a bi-cameral legislature, which satisfied the needs of both the large and small states |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | setteled the issue over whether slaves should be counted for representation |
| Federalism | division of power between the national and the state governments |
| Delegated powers | powers granted to the federal government |
| Reserved Powers | powers granted to the states |
| Concurrent powers | powers granted to bothe the federal and state governments; taxes |
| Popular Sovereignty | idea that the government recieves its power from the people and can only govern with the concent of the people |
| Checks and Balances | gives each of the three branches of government the ability to restrain the power of the other two |
| Seperation of Powers | intended to prevent the misuse of power by any one branch |
| Judicial Review | established during Marbury v Madison gives courts the power to declare state laws unconstitutional; increases the power of the federal government |
| Limited Government | The government only has as much authority as the people give it |
| Executive Branch | made up of the president and vice president; carries out the laws |
| Legislative Branch | makes the laws; congress |
| Judicial Branch | interprests the laws; Supreme Court |
| Electoral College | body of representatives that selects t he president |
| Census | tion count of each state every 10 years |
| Elastic Clause | allows for the amending process |
| Marbury v Madison | court case that established the principal of Judicial review |
| Federalists | supporters of the Constitution and a strong federal government;Hamilton |
| "The Federalist Papers" | articles written to win approval of the Constitution |
| Antifederalists | apponents of the Constitution; Jefferson |
| Bill of Rights | The first 10 amendments to the Constitution |
| Schenck v United States | Supreme Court case that set a precedent that your 1st amendment rights are not absolute |
| Tinker v des Moines | Court case that upheld students rights to express their opinions |
| New Jersey v TLO | Court case that created a "reasonable suspicion" rule for school searches |
| Hazelwood School district v Kuhlmeier | Court case that said schools don't need to tolerate student speach that is inconsistant with it's basic educational mission |
