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Jan 1, 1100
Roman government: 509 B.C.-27 B.C.
Based on these beliefs:
Republicanism: belief that people excercise thier power by voting for political representatives.
Popular Sovereignty: a government in which the people rule.
Constitutional government:Limited Government: everyone, including citizens and powerful leaders must obey the law.
Rome also includes cinncinatus, the powerful roman war leader who used civic virtue to make rome a better gov. -
John Locke
Based on these beliefs:
Popular Sovereignty: a government in which the people rule.
Checks and Balances: Each branch can excersise checks, or controls, over other branches.
Individual Rights: personal liberties or priveliges.
John locke was a philosopher who had many major influences on u.s -
Montisqueiu
Based on these beliefs:
Republicanism: belief that people exercise thier power by voting for political representatives.
separation of powers: division of basic government roles into branches.
Popular Sovereignty: a government in which people rule.
He had many ideas on republicanism, also called the celebrated montisqueiu -
Articles of Confederation
The articles of confederation-
under the articles powers were divided in this way...
States- taxes and enforce laws
Congress- wage war, declare peace, mint money, make laws.
articles of confederation gave the states too much power, and when the u.s was in debt, they refused taxes. -
Problems with the articles
The states were given too much power and when the u.s was in debt from the revolution, many states refused to give taxes to help the debt, so the u.s remained in debt. -
Philidelphia Convention
Also known as the constitutional convention, this is where the constitution was written. -
Constitution
the constitution was written at the philadelphia convention/constitutional convention. it more equally divide powers between the states and congress than the articles did.
it Featured 3 branches, legislative, executive, judicial. -
arguments over constitutional interpretations
Hamilton- wanted loose interpretation of the constitution, if it didn't say he couldn't do it, then it was ok. wanted a national bank. ( federalists)
Jefferson- wanted strict interpretation, if it didn't mention something, it obviously wasn't ok. didn't want a national bank because the constitution didn't mention it. (democratic repub.) -
ratification
The constitution was ratified in sep. of 1787 it was argued by two main groups.
antifederalists- said the constitution should not be ratified, worried it would give too much power to the government and that the executive branch could become a dictator.
federalists- supported constitution, argued in the fed. papers. -
Washingtons presidency
washington had to deal with foreign and domestic issues.
foreign-french and english war, french revolution, securing the north west territory, british.
domestic- debt, securing the n.w territory, battle of fallen timbers, whiskey rebellion. he gave the advice before leaving presidency of staying out of other country's buisness and avoiding political parties. -
first political parties
The first two political parties were the federalists and the democratic republicans. federalists followed Hamilton and democratic republicans followed Jefferson's views.
