History Ch. 7 and 8
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- SEGREGATED means:
- seperated on the basis of race
- SEPERATION OR POWERS
- delegates in the constitutional convention revived this principle which was once proposed by French Baron de Montesquieu in "The Spirit of Laws"
- INALIENABLE RIGHTS means:
- rights that governments could never take away
- UNCONSTITUTIONAL
- violating the constitution
- CONFEDERATION means:
- alliance of independent states
- FEDERALISM
- for of government in which governmental authority was divided between national and state governments
- RATIFY means:
- to approve
- CONCURRENT POWERS
- powers that the constitution granted to both the state and national government
- POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY means:
- people are the source of the governments power or authority
- RESERVED POWERS are:
- powers that the constitution did not grant directly to the national government - and were given to the states
- DELEGATED POWERS
- the rights that the constitution gave specifically to the national government
- IMPEACH
- accuse
- MANUMISSION means:
- freeing of slaves
- BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE means:
- a legislature with two houses, lower and upper. making the power split between the two
- SQUATTERS are:
- people who had moved into the new territory and established homesteads without complyin with the ordinance