History Chap 6
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- Constitutions
- Written descriptions of the kind of government you want to have
- Legislature
- Where proposed laws were to be debated.
- Executive
- Carried out the laws and day-to-day operations of the government
- Courts
- Where laws could be enforced.
- Bills of Rights
- Rules the government had to follow
- conservative
- Less likely to encourage change
- public servants
- The idea trhat the government served the people.
- Articles of Confederation
- Put in writing what the Contenintal Congress was already exercising
- Ratify
- approve
- Peace of paris
- Treaty of paris
- Land ordinance of 1785
- Established a method of selling the land
- townships
- 6 mile regions
- Land Ordinance of 1787 AKA Northwest ordinance
- Plan to govern townships
- territories
- Units that the northwest was divided into
- republican
- power lies in representatives
- depression
- Brief economic downturn
- Tarrifs
- Taxes on imports
- Continential dollars
- Paper Money
- hard money
- gold and silver coins
- inflation
- When prices rise because people have too much money
- Unconstitutional
- Violated the states constitution