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Speaker of the house:
- -assigns commitees
- -preside and keeps order
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House of Representatives
- -choose the Speaker and other officers
- -power of impeachment
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Magna Carta
675 years old; first document that led to any types of freedom; limited kings power even further.
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Hobbes
thought people needed to be told what to do
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Locke
thought people were good and make good decisions
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Mayflower Compact
first written government in American history, pilgrims put it together.
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1756-1763
Fremch/Indian war-fought in the colonies/United States; french and indians fought the British and the Americans
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2 things that happened during the French/Indian war:
- 1. Britain took control of most of N. America
- 2. Britain goes into deep debt.
- -king of England turns to America to get money.
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first continental congress
a group of representatives from each state to figure out how to make peace with the king; wrote petition-olive branch petition.
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second continental congress; 5 things:
- 1. 5 people write D of I
- 2. approved D of I
- 3. Created army and navy
- 4. printed money
- 5. first governement
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5 people that wrote the D of I
Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
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Declaration of Independence
written in July of 1776; letter from 2nd continental congress to King George III.
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Treaty of Paris
1783; ****gave us our freedom
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direct tax
added to the price of an item
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indirect tax
price is included
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Revolutionary War
April 1775; ends-oct. 1781
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Articles of Confederation
new governement; governed for 6-10 years*
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federal
since 1787, 224 years; one central government makes rules/decisions.
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confederate
6-10 years; states and local government makes rules/decisons
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land ordinance of 1785
took land we got from england and sold it
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northwest ordinance of 1787
- 1. 3/5 states out of land from England
- -ohio, indiana, illinois, michigan, wisconsin
- 2. no slavery north of the ohio river
- 3. how new states entered the union
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constitutional convention
- may-sept. 17, 1787
- -Philedelphia, Independence Hall
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Albany Plan
helped colonies unite for trade and business
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things agreed upon at the convention
- franklin had to be there
- washington in charge
- articles not good enough
- seperation of power
- republican
- keep on D.L.
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People at the convention
washington,hamilton, madison, franklin, morris
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people NOT at the convention
jefferson, J. adams, S. adams, hancock, patrick henry
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the spirit of laws
- -Baron de Montesquieu
- -people with power ten to abuse power
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The prince
- Machiavelli
- -need a gov. that tells people what to do
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social contract
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- -govt. has certain responsibilities to the people and the people have a certain responsibility to the govt.
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wealth of nations
- -adam smith
- -father of capitalism
- -govt. should have 3 roles:
- 1. protect citizens from invasion
- 2. protect people from eachother
- 3. educate the citizens
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two treaties of government
- john locke
- -people had the right to govern themselves and when govt. becomes overpowering we have the right to overthrow it.
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virginia plan
- legislature should be picked according to population
- -bigger states should have more representatives
- -"big state plan"
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new jersey plan
- "small state plan"
- -wanted it to be equal all the way across legislature branch
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Conneticut/Great comprimise
called for Bi-Cameral legislation
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House of Rep.
- picked according to population
- -435 (1 for every 575,000)
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Senate
- picked equally
- -every state has 2
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district 8
north of harshman road- rep. john boehner
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district 3
south of harshman road-rep. mike turner
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district 7
greene and clarke county-rep. steve austria
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gerry mandering
- way districts are drawn
- -party in charge draws them for political advantage for them
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Article 1
legislative- make the laws
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article 2
executive- enforce the laws
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article 3
judicial-what does the law say
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article 4
relations among states
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article 5
amending the constitutions
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article 6
national supremacy
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what is the only way the constitution can be changed?
by amendment
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can supreme court justices be impeached?
no, unless they are charged with conviction
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