Candidates__

Census..

persons who are put forward for public
offices..

official count of the whole people.

Checks and bal- ways laid down in the Constitution by

ances.

which each of the three branches of the

National Government can prevent the
other two branches from acting too fast

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Citizenship papers.

Civil...

Coin.

Colonies.....

Colonists..
Commerce..

Commission....

Compromises.

Consent...

Constitution.. Continental Congress.

or using authority that they do not
have under the Constitution...
papers given to persons who have been nat-
uralized to show that they are citizens..
having to do with private rights. Exam-
ple: my right to buy and sell property
is a civil right......-

make money..

groups of people that old countries al-
lowed to settle in America, but who still
owed duties to the home countries____.
persons living in a colony..
trade between persons or groups of persons.
Example: Commerce is buying and sell-
ing goods that are to be moved from one
place to another..

body given special power by government
to do certain work, especially in a city
government..

middle ways: choices between two claims
that are different.

say "yes".

a plan of government_

a group of representatives from the colo-
nies who first met in 1774 to make plans
to protect the rights of the colonies and
who approved the Declaration of Inde-
pendence in 1776.

having needed things ready and easy to use.

Convention_-_-_-_ a meeting of representatives

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Criminal Declaration of Independence.

Declare..

Delegate

Delegates.

Democracy.-

having to do with the trial of lawbreakers_
the public statement by which the Conti-
nental Congress declared the 13 North
American Colonies to be free States....

say

pass on to others_
representatives to whom other persons
give authority to represent them...
a government of the people, by the people,
and for the people_-_-

Document printed or written material that is an

official record of something

Domestic tranquil- peace at home or in the community..

lity.

Evasion...

Executive

Explore.

keeping something back; not true because
of some trick....

officer or officers who carry out the laws.
to travel in a new country; to discover___

Federal System... a system by which the authority to govern

is divided between the National and State Governments by the Constitution. being true to a thing; loyalty.__

Fidelity

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Independent

Indians

Interior

Incorporated------ having authority from the State___

not under another's control.

the red men in America_

at home; domestic..

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Naturalization pa- papers signed by a judge that show that

Naturalized....

Neighborhood... some part of a town or country where

people live close together. Example:
Everything near you is in your neighbor-
hood...

persons are citizens

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to be made a citizen by law..-

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Official...

Ordinances

made by the proper officers___

laws made by local lawmakers; city laws..

Organization...___ way in which a thing is arranged to do its

Organized..

work.....

set up according to certain fixed rules... Parliament, the... name for the British lawmaking group...

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Passport-

Patent...

Peaceably
Petition....
Pilgrims..

Platforms

official paper given by a government to a
citizen when he wishes to travel in
foreign countries, showing that the
government will help him while he is in
foreign countries__
statement in writing given by the Depart-
ment of Commerce to a person who has
invented something new. The written
statement gives him the right to control
the use and sale of the thing...

in a quiet way

to ask in writing.

the 102 persons who left the Church of

England and settled in New England in
order to be free in the way they wor-
shipped God..

written statements of the things for which
a political party stands....

Political parties.-- groups of persons who agree that the Gov-
ernment should be run in a certain way
and who try to get their own members
elected to public offices____

Population...

total number of people in a certain place..
our children, and their children, and so on.
one who rules with great authority..
an opening statement.

newspapers in general; those who print

things that are to be read.

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Posterity...

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Qualifications things which a person must have or do in order to hold a certain position.... made ready...

Qualified

Redress of griev- changes in the laws to end troubles.

Speaker, the

physical difference between male and
female----

owning persons as property..

Sovereignty--- the final authority over persons or things.

Treaty...

Trial
Veto____

Voters
Worship...

the officer who is president of the House of
Representatives.

above other things or persons_

a plant the leaves of which, when dried,
may be smoked or chewed by people_-_.
giving help to the enemies of the country
department that looks after money mat-
ters of the United States..

an important written statement made and
signed in regular form between two or
more nations by which they agree to do
or not to do certain things...

a law case being heard by a court- - - .
statement that something is not to be done;
refusal to sign a bill...

those who vote____

formal way of honoring a supreme being..

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