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20 Terms

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1. Antifederalists P 1. Antifederalists
2. Articles of Confederation First American constitution that established the United States as a loose confederation of states under a weak national Congress, which was not granted the power to regulate commerce or collect taxes. The Articles were replaced by a more efficient Constit
3. Bill of Rights Popular term for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The amendments secure key rights for individual sand reserve to the states all powers not explicitly delegated or prohibited by the Constitution.
4. Civic virtue Willingness on the part of citizens to sacrifice personal self-interest for the public good. Deemed a necessary component of a successful republic.
5. Civil Law Body of written law enacted through legislative statutes or constitutional provisions. In countries where civil law prevails, judges must apply the statutes precisely as written
6. Common law Laws that originate from court rulings and customs, as opposed to legislative statutes. The United States Constitution grow out the Anglo-American common law tradition and thus provided only a general organizational framework for the new federal governmen
7.Disestablish To separate an official state church from its connection with the government. Following the Revolution, all states disestablished the Anglican Church. though some New England states maintained established Congregational Churches well into the nineteenth c
8.Federalist Proponents of the 1787 Constitution, they favored a strong national government, arguing that the checks and balances in the new Constitution would safeguard the people's liberties.
9. Great compromise Popular term for the measure that reconciled the New Jersey and Virginia Plans at the Constitutional Convention, giving states proportional representation in the House and equal representation in the Senate. The compromise broke the stalemate at the conve
10. Land Ordinance of 1785 provided for the sale of land in the Old Northwest and earmarked the proceeds toward prepaying the national debt.
11. New Jersey Plan "Small-state plan" put forth at the Philadelphia convention, proposing equal representation by state, regardless of population, in a unicameral lecislature. Small states feared that the more populous states would dominate the agenda under a proportional s
12. Northwest Ordinance (1787) Created a policy for administering the Northwest the territories.. it included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories
13. Old Northwest Teritories acquired by the federal govemment from the states, encompassing land northwest of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi River, and south of the Great Lakes. The well-organized management and ale of the land in the territories under the lland
14. Republican Motherhood Ideal of family organization and female behavior after the American Revolution that stressed the role of women in guiding family members toward republican virtue.
15. Shay’s Rebellion (1787) - Armed uprising of western Massachusetts debtors seeking lower taxes and an end to property foreclosures. Though quickly put down, the insurrection inspired fears of "mob rule" among leading Revolutionaries.
16. Society of Cincinnati Exclusive, hereditary organization of former officers in the Continental Army. Many resented the pretentiousness of the order viewing it a vestige of pre-Revolutionary traditions.
17. The Federalist Papers (1788) Collection of essays written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton and published during the ratification debates in New York to lay out the Federalists' arguments in favor of the new Constitution. Since their publication, these influential es
18. Three-fifths compromise Determined that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of apportioning taxes and representation. The compromise granted disproportionate political power to southern slave states.
19. Virginia Plan "Large state" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress. The plan favored larger states and thus prompted smaller states to come back with their own plan for apportioning representati
20. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786) Measure enacted by the Virginia legislature prohibiting state support for religious institutions and recognizing freedom of worship. Served as a model for the religion cause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
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