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A British document that contains two basic ideas: Monarchs themselveshave to obey the laws,and citizens have basic rights.
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A document that guarateed the rights of English citizens.
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It was hard to wright a constitution that all states would approve. After much debate the Contitutional Congress approved the First American Constitution. The Articles of Confedreation created a very loose alliance between the 13 independant states.
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Set up a system for settling in the Northwest territory. It called for the territory to be surveyed and divided in to townships.
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When the Revolutionary war ended the demand for goods went down. When the state Massachusetts rose taxes many farmers could not pay them.Angery, they felt they were being treated unfairly
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A plan at the constitutional Convention favored by larger states, that called for a stong national goverment with three branches and a two chamber lagislature.
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A plan at the Constitutional Conventaion favored by small states that called for three branches of goverment with a single chamber legislature.
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A plan at the Constitutional convention that settled the differences between large and small states. Also each state gave up some demands to achieve inity.
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An agreement at the Constitutional Convention that 3/5 of the slaves in any state be counted.
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3/4 of the states had ratified the 10 of the 12 amendmants of the U.S. Constitution. These 10 amendments became known as the Bill of Rights.