Chapter 2 Vocab ( Mr. Coltabaugh )
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Limited Government | the power of both the national and state government is not unlimited |
| Representative Government | Power is held by the people and exercised through the efforts of representatives elected by the people. |
| Magna Carta | the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 |
| Petition of Right | Document prepared by Parliament and signed by King Charles I of England in 1628; challenged the idea of the divine right of kings and declared that even the monarch was subject to the laws of the land |
| English Bill of Rights | document that gave England a government based on a system of laws and a freely elected parliament |
| Bicameral | composed of two legislative bodies |
| Proprietary | characteristic of an owner of property; constituting property |
| Unicameral | composed of one legislative body |
| Confederation | a joining of several groups for a common purpose |
| Albany Plan of Union | A proposal for increased unity and cooperation among the colonies |
| Delegates | representatives |
| Boycott | a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies |
| Repealed | recalled |
| Popular Sovereignty | government can exist only with the consent of the governed |
| Articles of Confederation | a written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states |
| Ratification | formal approval |
| Presiding Officer | chair |
| Framers | Group of delegates who drafted the United States Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 |
| Virginia Plan | Virginia delegate James Madison's plan of government, in which states got a number of representatives in Congress based on their population |
| New Jersey Plan | New Jersey delegate William Paterson's plan of government, in which states got an equal number of representatives in Congress |
| Connecticut Compromise | Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators. |
| Three Fifths Compromise | the agreement by which the number of each state's representatives in Congress would be based on a count of all the free people plus three-fifths of the slaves |
| Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise | an agreement during the Constitutional Convention protecting slave holders; denied Congress the power to tax the export of goods from any State, and, for 20 years, the power to act on the slave trade |
| Federalists | people who favored ratification of the Constitution |
| Anti-Federalists | people who opposed ratification of the Constitution |
| Quorum | majority |
| Charter | a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights |
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