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| Group who favored strong state governments and a weak national government; they opposed the ratification of the Constitution | ||
| The compact among the thirteen original states that was the basis of their government | ||
| The first ten amendments to the Constitution | ||
| A governmental structure that gives each of the three branches of government a degree of oversight and control over the actions of others | ||
| Organizations in each of the American colonies created to keep colonists abreast of developments with the British | ||
| Type of government where the national government derives its powers from the states; a league of independent states | ||
| A document establishing the structure, functions, and limitations of a government | ||
| Document drafted by Thomas Jefferson that proclaimed the right of the American colonies to separate from Great Britain | ||
| Seventeen specific powers granted to Congress under Article I, section 8 of the Constitution including: taxation, coinage of money, regulation of commerce, and the authority to provide for a national defense | ||
| Plan of government created in the U.S. Constitution in which power is divided between the state and national governments and in which individual states are bound together under one national government | ||
| A series of eighty-five political papers in support of the ratification of the Constitution | ||
| Those who favored a stronger national government and supported the proposed U.S. constitution; later became the first political party | ||
| Meeting held in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26, 1774, in which fifty-six delegates (from every colony but Georgia) adopted a resolution in opposition to the Coercive Acts | ||
| A decision made during the Constitutional Convention to give each state the same number of representatives in the Senate regardless of size; representation in the House was determined by population | ||
| Powers derived from the enumerated powers and the necessary and proper clause, these powers are not stated specifically . | ||
| An economic theory designed to increase a nation's wealth through the development of commercial industry and a favorable balance of trade | ||
| The final paragraph of Article I, section 8 of the Constitution, which gives Congress the authority to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out the enumerated powers specified in the Constitution | ||
| A framework for the Constitution proposed by a group of small states including: a one house legislature with one vote per state, the establishment of Congress's acts as the "supreme law" of the land, and a supreme judiciary with limited power | ||
| Meeting that convened in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, at which it was decided that an army should be raised and George Washington was named commander in chief | ||
| A division of power among the three branches of government in which members of the House, the Senate, the president, and the federal courts are selected by and responsible to different constituencies | ||
| A 1786 rebellion in which an army of disgruntled farmers marched to Springfield, MA and forcibly restrained the court from foreclosing mortgages on their farms | ||
| Meeting of representatives of nine of the thirteen colonies held in New York City in 1765, during which representatives drafted a document to send to the king listing how their rights had been violated | ||
| Portion of Article VI of the Constitution mandating that national law is supreme to all other laws passed by the states or by any other subdivision of government | ||
| Agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention stipulating that each slave was to be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of determining population for representation in the House | ||
| The first general plan for the Constitution, proposed by James Madison, which includes: a bicameral legislature, an executive chosen by the legislature, and a judiciary named by the legislature |
