Chapter 1 Vocab ALL

A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea

• Public/Speedy Trial

• Establishment Clause

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Townshend Acts

English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679) - wrote Leviathan

• Thomas Hobbes

• Oligarchy

• Republicanism / Republic

• federalists

(1689-1755) wrote 'Spirit of the Laws', said that no single set of political laws was applicable to all - depended on relationship and variables, supported division of government

• John Peter Zenger

• Montesquieu

• Stamp Act

• Thomas Hobbes

A French man who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good, and be a democracy - Enlightenment era - social contract

• Bill of Rights

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• excessive bail/ fines

• Puritans

supporters of the Constitution

• checks and balances

• federalists

• excessive bail/ fines

• slavery

people who opposed the Constitution

• Puritans

• Coercive/Intolerable Acts

• Anti-Federalists

• excessive bail/ fines

Clause in the First Amendment that says the government may not establish an official religion.

• Indentured Servants

• Establishment Clause

• reserved for the states

• ratification

Government led by a monarch whose powers were limited by a Constitution, and who was required to consult Parliament

• Limited Constitutional Monarchy

• Thomas Hobbes

• public education

• ratification

belief in the equality of all

• Committees of Correspondence

• Establishment Clause

• Declaratory Act

• Eglatarianism

an economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad

• Limited Constitutional Monarchy

• Stamp Act

• favorable balance of trade

• "shot heard round the world"