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| Articles of Confederation |
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| The document that set up our country's first central government. |
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| A group of people who share similar ideas about government. |
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| A government body made up of secretaries of departments. |
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| Opponent of the ratification of the constitution. |
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| Supporter of the ratification of the constitution. |
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| A system in which one branch of government is balanced by another. |
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| A system in which the states and the federal government is balanced by another. |
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| A system in which the people chose the representatives to make the laws and run the government. |
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| An introduction to a constitution. |
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| An addition to a constitution or other document. |
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| A document that describes the basic rights of people. |
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| A proposal that congress should have two separate houses, one based on state population and the other based on casual state representation. |
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| The plan that gave small and large states an equal number of representatives. |
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| The head of the Judicial branch of government. |
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| The branch of government that decides the meaning of laws. |
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| The head of each department in the executive branch of government. |
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| The branch of government that carries out the laws made by congress. |
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| A lawmaking branch of government. |
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| Called for one house of congress based on population. |
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| An area of land that belongs to a government. |
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| A law that set out a plan for new territories to become states. |
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| Farmers protest the land tax imposed by Massachusetts. |
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