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We the People 2.10
How Did the States Govern Themselves
After the Revolution?
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Key Vocabulary
Legislative SupremacyPetitionPopular SovereigntyVeto
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Basic Ideas About Government in the State ConstitutionsA. Natural rights and higher law
a. Purpose: to protect the people’s rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
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Basic Ideas cont.
B. Social Contract
a. The people agree to government (consent to be governed)
b. People give power to government in return for protection
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Basic Ideas cont.
C. Popular Sovereignty
a.The people are the highest authority because they are the source of power
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Basic Ideas cont.
D. Representation
a. people are elected to office
b. White men who owned property could vote
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Basic Ideas cont.
E. Separation of Powers
a. Government was divided into branches: judicial, executive, legislative
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Basic Ideas cont.
F. Checks and Balances
a. None of the branches of government had all of the power
b. Branches checked each other
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Basic Ideas cont.
G. Legislative Supremacy
a. Majority of states set up their government so that the majority (most) power was controlled by the legislative branch
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Problems of Legislative Supremacy
A. State governments did not protect property rights of citizens
B. Factions formed seeking to promote own interests
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Problems cont.
C. State government taxed and controlled citizens (people) far more than British
D. State laws interfered with private lives of citizens
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Importance of Massachusetts ConstitutionA. Last state to write its constitution
B. Distributed power more evenly among branches
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Importance cont.
C. Governor could veto (refuse to sign laws) proposed by the legislature
D. Governor could appoint officials in executive and judicial branches
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Importance cont.
E. Also divided into voting groups based on wealth
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All Constitutions had a Declaration of Rights of CitizensAlso known as a bill of rights and protected the natural rights of the people
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Important Ideas in Virginia Declaration of RightsA. All power comes from and kept by the people
B. Men are created equal with basic rights
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Importance cont.
C. Government looks out for common good of people
(Relate back to Magna Carta and Declaration of Independence)
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Importance cont.
D. Listed individual rightsa. Trial by juryb. Protection against self-incriminationc. Protection against cruel and unusual punishmentd. freedom of presse. Freedom of religion
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Rights Protected in Other StatesA. Right to vote
B. Free elections
C. Freedom of speech and press
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Other States cont.
D. No taxation without representation
E. The right to petition (plead for change) to government