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BULLSEYE VOCABULARY

BULLSEYE VOCABULARY. UNIT 1. Constitutional Underpinnings. Good Luck on your Test!!!!. Opposed the new Constitution, feared the new Constitution would erode fundamental liberties, and argued that the new Constitution was a class-based document serving the economic elite?.

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BULLSEYE VOCABULARY

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  1. BULLSEYE VOCABULARY UNIT 1

  2. ConstitutionalUnderpinnings Good Luck on your Test!!!!

  3. Opposed the new Constitution, feared the new Constitution would erode fundamental liberties, and argued that the new Constitution was a class-based document serving the economic elite?

  4. Anti-Federalist

  5. The document that outlined the voluntary agreement betweenstatesand was adopted as the first plan for a permanent union of the United States?

  6. Articles of Confederation

  7. The first ten Amendments to the Constitution passed after ratification specifically protecting individual liberties to fulfill promises made by the Federalists to the Anti-Federalists in return for their support?

  8. Bill of Rights

  9. Each branch requires the consent of the others for many of its decisions?

  10. Checks & Balances

  11. The plan adopted at the Constitutional Convention to provide for two chambers in Congress, one representing states equally and the other representing states on the basis of their share of the population?

  12. Connecticut Plan

  13. Concept or term that means that the U.S. government has two chambers in Congress?

  14. Bicameralism

  15. People must agree on who their rulers will be and the People are the primary source of government power?

  16. Consent of the Governed

  17. A nation’s basic law creating institutions, dividing power, and providing guarantees to citizens?

  18. Constitution

  19. The document used by the signers to announce and justify the Breech with their former government and specifically designed to substantiate their reasons?

  20. Declaration of Independence

  21. Groups of people, currently known as political parties or interest groups, who arise as a result of unequal distribution of wealth to seize the reins of government in their own interest?

  22. Factions

  23. A name given by James Madison to an alliance formed by two or more factions?

  24. Coalition

  25. Essays written to convince others to support the new constitution?

  26. Federalist Papers

  27. Argued for ratification of the Constitution by writing the Federalist Papers; included Madison, Hamilton, and James Madison?

  28. Federalist

  29. Two of the most important Federalist Papers written by James Madison?

  30. Federalist 10Federalist 51

  31. In Federalist 10, Madison argued this was needed to break and control the violence of Faction?

  32. A well constructed Union

  33. In Federalist 10, Madison argued that this was a well constructed Union?

  34. Republican Form of government

  35. In Federalist 10, Madison argued we needed this type of Republic?

  36. Large (Extended)

  37. In Federalist 51, Madison argued we needed these to be used in structuring government?

  38. Checks & Balances; Separation of Powers

  39. The courts have the power to decide whether the actions of the legislative and executive branches of state and national governments are in accordance with the Constitution?

  40. Judicial Review

  41. The Supreme Court case that established the power of Judicial Review for the Supreme Court?

  42. Marbury v. Madison (1803)

  43. Clear restrictions on what rulers could do; this safeguards natural rights?

  44. Limited Government

  45. These are rights to which people are entitled by natural law, including life, liberty, and property?

  46. Natural Rights

  47. The political thinker that influenced Thomas Jefferson in creating the Declaration?

  48. John Locke

  49. Locke’s Idea that the government had a duty to secure people’s rights?

  50. Social Contract

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