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Cocept that ultimate political authority is vested in the citizens of the nation.
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Articles of Confederation-
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Ratified in1781, this document was the United States first constitution, Providing a framework for national government.
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Group of leaders who favored replacing the Articles of confederation with a stronger national government.
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Armed insurrection of farmers in western Massachusetts led by Daniel Shay, a veteran of the Continental Army.Nationalist
used the event to justify the calling of a constitutional convetion to strengthen the National government.
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Offered by James Madison and the Virgina delegation at the Constitutional Convention, this proposal called for a new
government with a strong executive office and two houses of Congress, each with representation proportional to a state's population.
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Proposal of the New Jerse delegation at the Constitutional Convention that Called for a strong national government with
one house of Congress in which all states would have equal representation.
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Critics of theConstitution who expressed concern that it seemed to posses no specific provision for the protection of
natural and civil rihgts.
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Supporters of the constitution who advocated its ratification.
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