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Unit 4
English Heritage
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| English Bill of Rights | It required the monarch to get Parliament’s consent to impose taxes, raise an army, or create special courts. |
| Parliament | Nobles and church officials who advised Henry III developed into a legislature– a lawmaking body |
| Precedent | rulings in earlier cases that were similar |
| House of Burgesses | The colonists chose representatives called burgesses to meet with the governor. These representatives formed the |
| Mercantilism | - the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys |
| Magna Carta Significance | This document upheld rights of landowners including equal treatment under the law and trial by one’s peers |
| Glorious Revolution | In a power struggle, Parliament removed King James II from the throne |
| Common Law | The system of law based on precedent and custom |
| Mayflower Compact | a written plan that set up a direct democracy in the colony |
| Tea Act | allowed the British East India Company to bypass colonial merchants and sell tea directly to shopkeepers at low prices |
| Declaratory Act | stated that it had the right to tax and make decisions for the colonies |
| Stamp Act | tax on newspapers, and legal documents |
| Townshend Act | taxed needed goods imported to the colonies |
| Coercive/Intolerable Acts | restricted colonists’ rights, taxed needed goods |
| Thomas Payne's Common Sense | swayed public opinion toward independence |
| Declaration of Independence - what are citizens entitled to? | life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
| Daniel Shays Rebellion | an indebted farmer, felt the state had no right to take his farm away because of a problem the state had created |
| Four Sources of American Law | Common, equity, constitutional, and statutory |
| Constitution definition | a written plan for government |
| Articles of Confederation | Separately, the states could not maintain a large army to fight the British. For this and other reasons, the Second Continental Congress made a plan for union called the xxxx |
| Articles of Confederation - weaknesses | Congress had no power to collect taxes, regulate trade or enforce laws on states, |
| Who presided over the constitutional Convention | George Washington |
| Virginia Plan | It called for a government with three branches: the legislative branch executive branch and judicial branch. The legislature would have two houses, with the states represented by basis of population in each. The XXXX Plan appealed to the large states |
| New Jersey Plan | The XXX Plan also called for three branches of government. The legislature would have one house and each state would get one vote. This plan would give equal power to large and small states. |
| Great Compromise | Roger Sherman’s committee proposed a Senate and a House of Representatives. Each state would have equal representation in the Senate. Representation in the House would be based on population |
| 3/5 Compromise | that every five enslaved persons would count as three free persons for determining congressional representation and figuring taxes |
| Electoral College | group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president |
| Federalism | a form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the states |
| Federalist | argued for a strong central government |
| Anti-Federalist | wanted more power for the states and less for the national government |
| Rule of Law | Laws applies to everyone including those who govern |
| Slave Trade Compromise | Congress wouldn't touch slave trade until 1808 |
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