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| George Washington's vice president; succeeded Washington as president |
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| first Secretary of Treasury; proposed Bank of the United States; |
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| crafty French foreign minister who refused to meet with American envoys in Paris in 1797 (XYZ Affair) |
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| the belief that what the Constitution did not forbid it permitted; proposed by Hamilton |
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| powers not specifically mentioned in the Constitution; part of loose construction |
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| a theory popular among English political philosophers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; as applied to America by Jeffersonians |
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| Bank of the United States |
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| proposed by Hamilton and modeled after the Bank of England; powerful private institution of which the government |
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| At the beginning it was surprising peaceful and imposed constitutional shackles on Louis XVI, Americans considered it an extension of their revolution but turned bad |
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| issued by Washington in 1793, shortly after the outbreak of war between Britain and France; proclaimed the government's official neutrality and warned American citizens to be impartial toward both armed camps; |
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| written by Madison as an Amendment to the Constitution, it declares that specifying certain rights "shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people" |
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| treaty with Spain in which Spain granted the Americans free navigation of the Mississippi and the large disputed territory north of Florida (Spain feared American-British alliance because of Jay's Treaty) |
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| Farewell Address Washington |
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| strongly advised the avoidance of permanent alliances (like the Franco-American Treaty of 1778); his resignation contributed to establishing a two-term tradition for American president |
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| believed in rule by the informed masses, friendliness toward extension of democracy, weak central government to preserve states' rights |
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| created by the first Congress to create effective federal courts; organized the Supreme Court, with a chief justice and five associates, as well as federal district and circuit courts, and established the office of attorney general |
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| first Secretary of State; proposed strict construction; lost election to succeed Washington, so he became John Adams's vice president; leader of Democratic-Republicans; |
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| first chief justice of the United States; created Jay's Treaty; Federalist, believed in aristocracy |
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