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2. Origins of American Government.
Our Political Beginnings.
The Coming of Independence.
The Critical Period.
Creating the Constitution.
Ratifying the Constitution.
government is restricted in what it may do, and
each individual has certain rights that government
cannot take away
the idea that government should solve the will of
the people
“government of, by, and for the people”
Great Charter in 1215, established the principle
that the power of the monarchy was not absolute
1628, challenged the idea of divine right of kings,
declaring that even a monarch must obey the law of
the land
1689
- prohibit a standing army in peace time
- required that all parliamentary elections be free
- right to a fair trial
for each colony, a written grant of authority from
the king
two house legislature
king makes a land grant to a person
Ex: 1632 Maryland to Lord Baltimore
1681 Pennsylvania to William Penn
one-house body
joining of several groups for a common purpose
annual congress of delegates from each of the 13
colonies to raise military and naval forces and to
tax Natives
representatives
a refusal to buy or sell certain products or services
with drawn
government can exist only with the consent of the
governed
established “a firm league of friendship” among
many states
formal approval
chair, leader of Congress
the group of delegates who attended the
Philadelphia Convention
largely the work of Madison, presented the idea of
1. legislative
2. executive
3. judicial
favored unicameral Congress with equal
representation from each state
How should the states be represented in Congress?
two houses
Senate = equal representation
House = based on population
“three-fifths of all other persons” so southerners
could count their slaves in the population count
forbids Congress to tax the exports of goods from
any state, forbids the power to act on the slave
trade for 20 years, until 1808
favored ratification of the Constitution, favored a
stronger central government
opposed ratification of the Constitution, lacking a
bill of rights and opposed the greatly increased
powers of the federal government
majority
Politics and Skills
Foundations of American Rights
The Magna Carta
The Thirteen Colonies, 1775
The Magna Carta
Stamp Act
Voices on Government
Boston Tea Party
Washington’s Leadership
Common Features of State Constitutions
Thomas Jeffersson
The Declaration of Independence
Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Shay’s Rebellion
Mount Vernon
Selected Framers of the Constitution
Constitutional Convention
Slavery in the United States, 1790.
Political Cartoon
An Era of Revolutions
Defending the Constitution
Analyzing Political Cartoons