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| charter colonies | in this type colony, most governmental matters were handled by the colonists |
| Declaration of Independence | argues that people have certain natural rights, government can exist only with the people's permission, and that people may change or ablolish the government |
| proprietary colonies | organized by people to whom the king had made a grant of land available and could be settled andc governed in whatever manner they saw fit |
| Petition of Right | statement that Parliment forced the king to sign, declaring that even a monarch must obey the law |
| boycott | organized action to change opponents' behavior by refusing to buy or sell their goods |
| Magna Carta | first English charter of liberties which included such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law |
| Anti-Federalists | those for whom the Constitution represented a too-powerful central government |
| Connecticut Compromise | that, in Congress, States by represented equally in the Senate and by population in the House |
| representative government | idea that government should serve the will of the people |
| Virginia Plan | called for representation in Congress by population or by the amount of money given to the central government |
| Intolerable Acts | led to the meeting of the First Continental Congress |
| Stamp Act | led to the Stamp Act Congress |
| Second Continental Congress | created an army, money system, and foreign treaties |
| Articles of Confederation | had only a legislative branch with a unicameral Congress |
| George Washington | was elected by a unanimous vote of the electors in the temporary federal capital of New York City |
| John Adams | the first elected Vice President of the United States |
| Post-War national government | was proved too weak under the Articles of Confederation to deal with growing economic and political problems |
| popular sovereignty | the feature that both the State constitutions and the Articles of Confederation had in common |
| Sources for the Constitution | State constitutions, John Locke's Two Treatises on Governmet, and British tradition |
| Massachusetts | has the oldest constitution still in force today |
| objective of both the Annapolis Convention and the Philadelphia Convention | to recommend a federal plan for regulating interstate trade |
| Massachusetts | the colony that was founded mainly as a place for personal and religious freedom |
| Benjamin Franklin | said that the final Constitution was as near perfect as possible |
