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A city's basic law.
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Document written by Parliament designed to prevent abuse of power by English monarchs.
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Basic principle of the American system of government which asserts that the people are the only source of any and all government power, and government can exist only with the consent of the governed.
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Presented as an alternative to the Virginia Plan; called for a unicameral legislature.
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Proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies.
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Plan of government adopted by the Continental Congress after the American Revolution.
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Basic principle of American goverment which states that government is restricted in what they may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away.
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Those persons who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1787-1788.
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Agreement during the Constitutional Convention that Congress should be composed of a Senate and a House.
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Chair.
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Document prepared by Parliament that challenged the idea of the divine right of kings and declared that even the monarch was subject to the laws of the land.
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An agreement at the Constitutional Convention to count a slave as three-fifths of a person when determining population of a State.
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Least number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business.
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