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The Magna Carta is a document guaranteeing English political liberties that was drafted at Runnymede, a meadow by the River Thames, and signed by King John on June 15, 1215, under pressure from his rebellious barons. -
The House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. About 140 years later, when Washington was elected, the electorate was made up of male landholders.
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An English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state, reportedly of equal value to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689. -
England sought to emulate other European powers by establishing colonies in the New World. The goal of the colonists and their supporters was to increase England's territorial hegemony and to enrich themselves.
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A group of delegates from all of the 13 colonies (except Georgia) met in Philadelphia to discuss the situation with England and decide how to react. They sent a Declaration of Rights to King George III in which they protested the unfair laws that had been imposed upon them. -
A war fought mainly between England and the American colonies. The war began at Lexington and Concord after Britain again and again refused to listen to the colonists' protests against the strict policies that were pressed upon them
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The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War
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This declaration announced the independence of America from Britain about a year after the Revolutionary War began. After this document was signed, the United States of America became an official nation of independent states.
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The first governmental structure of the United States. Work on this document was begun immediately after the Declaration of Independence but it was not ratified on March 1, 1781.
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The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. This founding document, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Wikipedia
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met to address and solve the problems that were present in the Articles of Confederation.
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39 ut of 41 delegates of the Constitutional Convention signed our modern constitution into law.
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Both state and national governments were equal authorities operating within their own spheres of influence
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The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. ... It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion. It sets rules for due process of law and reserves all powers not delegated to the Federal Government to the people or the States. -
The amendment was adopted in 1791 along with nine other amendments that make up the Bill of Rights—a written document protecting civil liberties under U.S. law. The meaning of the First Amendment has been the subject of continuing interpretation and dispute over the years.
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Quartering of Soldiers
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Search and Seizure
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Jury Trial
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Protections against Excessive Bail, Cruel and Unusual Punishment
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Non-Enumerated Rights
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Rights Reserved to States
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right to bear arms
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Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process
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Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions: Rights to Jury Trial, to Confront Opposing Witnesses and to Counsel
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Suits Against a State
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Election of President and Vice-President
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Overview During this period, the small republic founded by George Washington's generation became the world's largest democracy. Pre-Civil War African-American Slavery African Americans had been enslaved in what became the United States since early in the 17th century.
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Maryland taxed the national bank
Court ruled bank was necessary and proper
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Abolition of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude
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Protects rights against state infringements, defines citizenship, prohibits states from interfering with privileges and immunities, requires due process and equal protection, punishes states for denying vote, and disqualifies Confederate officials and debts
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Voting Rights
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Overview In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. The American West, 1865-1900 The completion of the railroads to the West following the Civil War opened up vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development.
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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
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- gave Congress authority to set a federal income tax Main source of US income
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Women's Right to Vote
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States and national governments worked together to deal with the Great Depression
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Repeal of 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
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Commencement of Presidential Term and Succession
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Upheld Fair Labor Standards Act. Commerce clause allows congress to regulate employment conditions
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Two-Term Limitation on President
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Government program to eliminate poverty and social inequality
Johnson created creative federalism, which released national funds to achieve national goals.
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Government program to eliminate poverty and social inequality
Johnson created creative federalism, which released national funds to achieve national goals.
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Abolition of Poll Tax Requirement in Federal Elections
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Expanded rights of people acused of crimes . "Miranda Rights" -
Allows citizens access to written records kept by federal agencies
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Struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage
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Presidential Vacancy, Disability and Inability
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Popular Election of Senators
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Prohibition
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Right to Vote at Age 18
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It stipulates the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of military action and prohibits armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days. The Constitution divides war powers between Congress and the president.
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Ronald Reagan believed state governments could better provide services to the people
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Congressional Compensation
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Reorganization of agencies already in place
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2nd amendment protects an individuals rights to keep and bear arms for self defense
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states must grant and recognize same-sex marriage
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forms an unofficial alliance
Bureaucratic agencies
Congressional oversight committees
Outside interest groups
