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civic virtue
three-fifths
compromise
New Jersey Plan
republican
motherhood
Antifederalists
Virginia Plan
Land Ordinance of
1785
Patrick Henry
Lord Sheffield
Disestablish
Old Northwest
Virginia Statute for
Religious
Freedom
Northwest
Ordinance
Great
Compromise
Articles of
Confederation
common law
Society of the
Cincinnati
Daniel Shays
Federalists
civil law:
Shays’s Rebellion
The Federalist
A. COLUMN
civic virtue
Willingness on the part of citizens to sacrifice personal self-interest
for the public good.
Deemed a necessary component of a successful republic.
Virginia Plan
"Large state" proposal for the new constitution,
calling for proportional representation in
both houses of a bicameral Congress. The plan favored larger states and thus prompted smaller
states to come back with their own plan for apportioning representation.
common law
Laws that originate from court rulings and customs
, as opposed to legislative statutes. The
United States Constitution grew out of the Anglo-American common law tradition and thus
provided only a general organizational framework for the new federal government.
Shays’s Rebellion
Uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers
and indentured servants led by planter Nathaniel
Bacon; initially a response to Governor William Berkeley's refusal to protect backcountry settlers
from Indian attacks, the rebellion eventually grew into a broader conflict between impoverished
settlers and the planter elite.
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