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| First Continental Congress | First gathering of state delegates who discussed allegiance to Britain. They drew up the "Declaration of Rights" |
| Anti-Federalists | group of people who opposed the new federal System of government; led by Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock |
| Second Continental Congress | This congress met in Philadelphia three weeks after the battle of Lexington and Concord. John Hancock was elected the President of the Continental Congress |
| Common Sense | popular and widely read pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It included the most persuasive arguments for independence and that the U.S. should cut our ties with royal tyranny |
| Northwest Ordinance 1787 | outlined a government structure for the Northwest territory |
| Virginia Plan | a plan that involved 3 separate branches of government, legislative, executive, judicial. Also with a bicameral legislature and national legislature would have authority to cancel conflicting state laws and make the states comply with national laws. (favors national laws.) |
| Federalist | those who favored the creation of the new federal government |
| New Jersey Plan | A proposal of government designed by William Patterson which favored an unicameral legislature and a plural executive branch |
| Mayflower Compact | The agreement in which New England settlers established their own government in 1620. The signers agreed to live under a government that would make "just and equal laws... for the good of the colony." |
| The three fifths comprise | Only part of the slave population would be counted in determining representation, but they also were to be counted in direct taxes |
| "The Federalists" | a series of 85 essays written by Hamilton,Madison,and John Jay defending the Constitution. It was used to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution |
| Social Contract | an agreement among the members of a society to create a state and obey its government. |
| Limited Government | system in which government actions are limited to help ensure individual liberties and equality under the law representative government- government where the reps are elected or have received their position by inheritance and make law |
| The English Bill of Rights | document in which Queen Mary II and King William III recognized certain basic rights Such as, the right of British subjects to petition the monarch to answer their grievances and the right of British subjects to be protected from excessive bail and from cruel and unusual punishment |
| Magna Carta | adopted in 1215, limited the power of the government(king) |
| Connecticut Compromise | A plan providing for a bicameral legislature in which the people would be represented in the House of Representatives and the states in the senate |
