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Who is Thomas Jefferson?
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing."
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What is manumission?
This is the freeing of individual enslaved persons.
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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.
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Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This New York lawyer, originally from the Caribbean, was one of the most powerful voices promoting federalism and the Constitution.
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What is the Magna Carta?
This legal document from 1215 was ideologically important to the Framers as it protects private property from the government.
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Who is George Washington?
"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
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What are ordinances?
These are laws, such as those created in 1785 and 1787.
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What is the executive branch?
Some call my head the president. I carry out the nation's laws and policies.
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What is Shays's Rebellion?
George Washington thought governmental overhaul was necessary following this farmer uprising.
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Who is John Locke?
I heart natural rights (especially life, liberty, and the protection of property).
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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."
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What is depreciate?
This is when something falls in value.
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What is the judicial branch?
I am in charge of appointing and hearing legal challenges.
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What is Rhode Island?
To the frustration of its fellow states, this single state prevented the passage of Robert Morris's Import Tax.
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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!
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Who is Alexander Hamilton
"A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed... is a bad government."
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What is reformation?
This is the process of change; think Luther.
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What is the Supreme Court?
Those who are appointed to serve on this, serve for life.
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What is New Jersey?
This state led the fight against proportional representation at the constitutional convention.
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What is Greece?
This Mediterranean country is home to what was likely the world's first democracy.
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Who is Patrick Henry?
"I look upon that paper as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people."
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What is the electoral college?
This is a special group made up of presidential electors.
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What is impeach?
I, the Legislative Branch, have the power to do this to judges who are failing in their duty.
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What is the Articles of Confederation?
This "firm league of friendship" had difficulty taking care of Revolutionary soldiers.
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Who is John Locke?
He authored Two Treatises of Civil Government.
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