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document that has the framework of government

• Bill of Rights
• Declaration of Independence
• Magna Carta
• Constitution

to approve

• ratify

• constitution

• amend

• repeal

to change

• ratify

• constitution

• repeal

• amend

the sharing and diving of power between the national and state governments

• Socialism
• Federalism
• Monarchy
• Anarchy

a government in which power is held by the people and their elected representatives

• Dictatorship
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Republic

USA's government during the Revolution and after, America's 1st Constitution

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Articles of Confederation
• Declaration of Independence
• Bill of Rights

supreme power or authority

• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Monarchy
• Sovereignty

event that led state leaders to meet to change (and then get rid of) the Articles of Confederation

• Battle of Yorktown

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Shays' Rebellion

• Civil War

supported a strong federal government and wanted ratification of the Constitution

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

• Philadelphians

• New Yorkers

group that worried about the strengths of the federal government and wanted to a Bill of Rights to the Constitution

• Anti-Federalists
• Federalist Party
• Constitutionalists
• Pro-Federalists