People Who Said Things Vocab I've got the Power. Let's Fight Back to our Roots
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Who is Thomas Jefferson?
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing."
100
What is manumission?
This is the freeing of individual enslaved persons.
100
What is the legislative branch?
I make laws, collect taxes, coin money, regulate trade, and am supposed to have the sole power to declare war.
100
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This New York lawyer, originally from the Caribbean, was one of the most powerful voices promoting federalism and the Constitution.
100
What is the Magna Carta?
This legal document from 1215 was ideologically important to the Framers as it protects private property from the government.
200
Who is George Washington?
"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
200
What are ordinances?
These are laws, such as those created in 1785 and 1787.
200
What is the executive branch?
Some call my head the president. I carry out the nation's laws and policies.
200
What is Shays's Rebellion?
George Washington thought governmental overhaul was necessary following this farmer uprising.
200
Who is John Locke?
I heart natural rights (especially life, liberty, and the protection of property).
300
Who is George Mason?
"There is no declaration of rights, and the laws of general government being paramount to the laws and constitutions of the several States, the declarations of rights in the separate States are no security."
300
What is depreciate?
This is when something falls in value.
300
What is the judicial branch?
I am in charge of appointing and hearing legal challenges.
300
What is Rhode Island?
To the frustration of its fellow states, this single state prevented the passage of Robert Morris's Import Tax.
300
Who is Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu?
I wrote The Spirit of Laws in 1748 which argued for the separation of powers within government!
400
Who is Alexander Hamilton
"A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed... is a bad government."
400
What is reformation?
This is the process of change; think Luther.
400
What is the Supreme Court?
Those who are appointed to serve on this, serve for life.
400
What is New Jersey?
This state led the fight against proportional representation at the constitutional convention.
400
What is Greece?
This Mediterranean country is home to what was likely the world's first democracy.
500
Who is Patrick Henry?
"I look upon that paper as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people."
500
What is the electoral college?
This is a special group made up of presidential electors.
500
What is impeach?
I, the Legislative Branch, have the power to do this to judges who are failing in their duty.
500
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This "firm league of friendship" had difficulty taking care of Revolutionary soldiers.
500
Who is John Locke?
He authored Two Treatises of Civil Government.






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