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Government: Test 2 Study Guide

• Declaration of Independence

• checks and balances

• Articles of Confederation

• factions

• Connecticut Compromise

• natural rights

• Albany Plan of Union

• Northwest Ordinance

• Common Sense

• New Jersey Plan

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• elastic clause

• enumerated powers

• Electoral College

• ex post facto laws

• Shays’ Rebellion

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Government: Test 2 Study Guide

• bill of attainder

• full faith and credit clause

• Virginia Plan

• federalism

• supremacy clause

• separation of powers

• judicial review

• limited government

• popular sovereignty

• implied powers

• House of Representatives

• writ of habeas corpus

• Senate

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Government: Test 2 Study Guide

• Article 2

• Article 3

• Article 4

• Article 5

• Article 6

• Article 7

• Thomas Jefferson

• Constitution v. The Articles of Confederation

• Baron Montesquieu

• William Patterson

• Edmund Randolph

• Roger Sherman

• Charles Beard

• John Locke

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Government: Test 2 Study Guide

• Social Contract