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Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, sections 8, 11, 26, and 29 were set aside for this
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Federalist were ____ the ratification of the Constitution
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_____Carta, gave English noblemen some rights, influenced the writers of the Constitution
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Father of the Constitution
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First state to ratify the Constitution
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Group which decides if laws have been carried out fairly and legally
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Yes or No...New York and New Hampshire fought over who owned Vermont
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One weakness of the Articles of Confederation is that the national government could not force the states to pay a ________
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Type of government the Constitution established
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Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, section ___teen was set aside for education
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Virginia was the last state to ____ their western lands
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Document that sets out the laws, principles and organization of a government (sometimes called a "living document" because it can be amended
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This was the most respected American to attend to Constitutional Convention
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Virginia had this in their State Constitution, it was then copied by many other states before becoming the First Ten Amendments
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Philosopher who wrote about separation of powers
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Settlement in which each side gives up some of its demands in order to reach an agreement
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Group of people who have the power to make laws
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Period of slow economic activity
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Sleeping Beauty's name
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House of Representatives was considered this
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Separate parts of anything written
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The Constitution begins with the phrase "___ the people, in order to form a more perfect union."
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British Philosopher who influenced the writers of the Constitution
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Under the Northwest Ordinance, new states would be _____ in size to existing states
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In the Northwest Territory, states could not tax people who traveled on rivers; they could travel for _____
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One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that their was no national ________ to help protect states
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The Northwest Territory was carved into the states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and ___
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Yes or No. Under the Articles of Confederation, states were printing their own money, there was no national army and Congress could not require that states pay taxes
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Yes or No- State Legislatures and Congress cannot propose amendments to the Constitution