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| The legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people. | |
| The state is divided into branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility. | |
| To prevent one branch from becoming supreme, and to induce the branches to cooperate, governance systems that employ a separation of powers need a way to balance each of the branch | |
| The first constitution of the US, it legally established the union of the states. It lacked a strong central authority and emphasied the power of the states. | |
| Propsed a bicameral legislature with the number of representatives in both houses based on the state population of free persons. | |
| Proposed a unicameral legislature in which each state would recieve one vote regardless of size. | |
| Proposed a bicameral legislature with one house's representation based on population and another with equal represenation. | |
| The proposal to count all slaves as less than a whole person for the purpose of representation in the House and electoral voters. | |
| Statesmen and public figures supporting ratification of the proposed Constitution of the United States between 1787 and 1789. They were in favor of a stronger federal government. | |
| They opposed the Federalists and argued that the federal government of a nation should be equal or inferior in power to state governments. | |
| the doctrine in democratic theory under which legislative and executive action is subject to invalidation by the judiciary. It is one of the checks of the Judicial Branch. | |
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| A system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units like states. | |
| The Supreme Law of the United States of America | |
| The document, signed in 1776, that dissolved the political bands between the United States and Great Britain. | |
| Rights which are not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of a particular society or polity. They are universal. | |
| Popular Sovereignty, Limited Government, Seperation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Judicial Review, Federalism | |
| He was the President of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia | |
| The author of the Virginia Plan and the principal author of the Constitution | |
| A term in political philosophy that describes a condition of humanity before the foundation of state or the implementation of law. Anarchy. | |
| People give up some rights to a government or other authority in order to receive or maintain social order through the rule of law. | |
| A term in political philosophy that describes a condition of humanity before the foundation of state or the implementation of law. Anarchy. | |
| A series of articles written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay to gain support for the adoption of the Constitution. | |
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