Metallo Unit 1 Terms
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Some of these are my own definitions, so please pm me if you have a better suggestion.
Some of these are my own definitions, so please pm me if you have a better suggestion.
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- Plebeians
- working-class of ancient Rome
- Anti-Federalists
- those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution
- Federalists
- those who supported the ratification of the Constitution in 1787 and 1788
- Magna Carta
- Great Charter forced upon King John of England by his barons in 1215, establishing that the power of the monarchy was not absolute and guaranteed trial by jury and due process of law to nobility
- Common Law
- unwritten law made by a judge that has developed over centuries of from those generally accepted ideas of right and wrong that have gained judicial recognition
- Thomas Jefferson
- 3rd president of the United States and the primary author of the Declaration of Independence
- John Peter Zenger
- writer involved in a suit of seditious libel; reason for first amendment freedom of press
- Intrastate
- within a single state
- John Locke
- British philosopher and revolutionary
- Precedent
- court decision that stands as an example to be followed in future similar cases
- Political Parties
- groups of people who seek control of the government through winning elections and holding public office
- New Jersey Plan
- plan presented by the delegates of New Jersey as an alternative to the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention that called for a unicameral legislature in which each state would be represented equally
- Shay's Rebellion
- armed uprising in Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787 against high legal costs and extensive taxation of colonists
- Republic
- form of government in which the sovereign power is exercised by vote, while the political power is exercised by representatives chosen by and responsible for citizens
- Compromise
- an adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspects of each
- Interstate
- between or across several states
- Patricians
- upper-class of ancient Rome
- Code of Hammurabi
- first written law
- Jean Rousseau
- Enlightenment philosopher who politically influenced the French Revolution
- Parliament
- central agency of Britain's Unitary government
- Committees of Correspondence
- body organized in 1764 by governments of the colonies to oppose unfair British rule
- Democracy
- form of government in which the supreme authority rests with the people
- House of Burgesses
- first elected legislative assembly in the New World, formed in Virginia in 1619
- Articles of Confederation
- plan of government adopted by the Continental Congress after the American Revolution; established a "firm league of friendship" among states, but allowed few important powers to the central government
- Thomas Hobbes
- 17th century British philosopher who wrote "Levitation"
- James Madison
- 4th president of the United States
- Thomas Paine
- political commentator who wrote "Common Sense"
- Virginia Plan
- plan presented by delegates of Virginia at the constitutional convention that called for a 3 branch government with a bicameral legislature in which each states' membership would be determined by its population or its financial support for the central government