The idea that the government's authority comes from the people.

He was largely responsible for the Philadelphia convention itself. Once there, he favored the Virginia plan for proportional representation in both houses in congress. This would have favored his home states of New York, which was one of the largest and m

The lawmaking part of government, called the leglislature. To leglislate is to make a law.

On April 30, 1789, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. He pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey S

The part of the government consisting of the supreme court, and lower federal courts, that interpets the laws.

Durring the creation of the constitution, He opposed of the new constitution. "I confess, that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present; but Sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it…Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution, because I

The constitutional syatem that shares power between the national and state governments.

He (1751-1836) was the principle architect of the united states constitution and fourth president of the United States. During the Revolution, he helped draft Virginia's state Constitution and served in the continental convention.

A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government.

She was an American poet, historian, and dramatist whose brother James was an important activist in the American Revolution. During the years before the American Revolution, Warren published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts a