American Government Chapter 2

Those persons that supported the ratification of the Constitution

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

• Framers

Those persons that opposed the ratification of the Constitution

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

• Framers

Formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Plan

A person who is chosen or elected to represent a person or group

• framer

• farmers

• delegate

• federalist

A set of things that people believe they should be free to do without restrictions

• rights

• boycott

• independence

• government

Government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that the government cannot take away

• limited government

• representative government

• democracy

• republic

Established two houses of Congress: the House of Representatives, in which representation is based on states' populations; and the Senate, in which each state has two representatives

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

• Articles of Confederation

Government that serves the will of the people

• representative government

• limited government

• presidential government

• Articles of Confederation

Called for a unicameral legislature in which each state would be equally represented

• Connecticut Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Declaration of Independence

People are the ultimate source of government authority and of the policies that the government leaders make.

• popular sovereignty

• limited government

• presidential government

• Articles of Confederation