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| Founding Father, Bicameral legislature, 2nd President, Midnight appointments---->Marbury vs. Madison case |
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| Sixth President, Monroe Doctrine |
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| Massachusetts statesman, Organized Boston Tea Party, In Continental Congress, Opposed Strong Federal Government |
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| Laws passed in 1798 to stop the writings of French propagandists against the neutrality of the United States with regards to the French and British War |
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| Idea that the American experience is different or unique from others and that America has a unique and special role in the world |
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| No one person or group has absolute power. It's a fight for power. Part of the Human Predicament |
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| Political group that was against the ratification of the Constitution |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| Document outlining an alliance of sovereign, equal states in which there was a weak central government |
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| One of the 4 Alternative Forms of Government; sees people as children in need of carefully controlled environment provided by government |
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| A legislature in which there are two seperate divisions or houses |
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| Theodore Roosevelt phrase that represented military might of the U.S. |
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| First 10 ammendments to the Constitution regarding basic protections of rights. Passed in response to Anti-Federalist argument against the initial Constitution. |
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| American Colonist protest against the tax on tea in Boston Harbor |
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| The form many clauses are written in the Constitution. Open to broad interpretation |
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| Philosophy of a free market economy in which the government serves only to create an acceptable environment in which to make exchanges. |
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| Placed within the Constitution to limit and seperate the powers of the seperate branches of government |
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| meekness, compassion, love for ones neighbor |
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| Biblical ideal, invoked by John Winthrop. The idea of what America's standard is. |
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