| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Limited government | Government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has certain rights that government cannot take away |
| representative government | idea that government should serve the will of the people |
| Magna Carta | document including fundamental rights such as trial by jury and due process |
| Petition of Right | document limiting the king's power, demanding that the king no longer imprison or punish any person without the lawful judgement of one's peers |
| English Bill of Rights | Document prohibited a standing army in peacetime and required the parliamentary elections be free |
| Charter | a written grant of authority from the king |
| Bicameral | Two house |
| Proprietary | colonies organized by a proprietor, a person whom the king had granted a charter |
| Unicameral | One house |
| Confederation | Joining of several groups for a common purpose |
| Albany Plan of Union | Ben Franklin's proposal that an annual congress by formed from the 13 colonies |
| Delegates | representatives |
| Boycott | refusal to buy or sell certain good or services |
| Repealed | withdrawn or cancelled |
| Popular sovereignty | government can exist only with the consent of the governed |
| Articles of Confederation | "a firm league of friendship" |
| Ratification | formal approval |
| Presiding officer | president or chair |
| Framers | group of delegates who attended the Philadelphia Convention |
| Virginia Plan | Favored larger states with representation based upon population |
| New Jersey Plan | Favored smaller states with representation based upon equal votes |
| Connecticut Compromise | Agreement in a bicameral Congress with the lower house based on population and the upper house based on equal votes |
| 3/5 Compromise | All "free persons" should be counted as one and slaves should be counted as 3/5 of a person |
| Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise | Congress was forbidden to tax export goods from any state or to regulate the slave trade for 20 years |
| Federalists | those that favored the ratification of the Constitution |
| Anti-Federalists | Those that opposed the ratification of the Constitution |
| Quorum | majority |
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