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Lesson Plans
Vocabulary
Unfamiliar vocabulary can make documents difficult. The following is a list
of terms which could be addressed before student reading.
Unit 1
- enabling legislation
- expressed versus implied powers
- revenue raising
- debt management
- executive departments
- judiciary jurisdiction
- rule of law
- sectionalism
- First Continental Congress
- Confederation Congress
- Federal Convention
- First Federal Congress
- 18th century use of s and f
Unit 2
- magistrate
- Articles of Confederation
- colours
- quorum
- Pierre L'Enfant
- federal decor
- antifederal junto
- rank Antifederalist
- Federalist
- election advertisement
- verdure
Unit 3
- speaker of the house
- decorum
- points of order
- division of the house
- appoint committees
- adjourn
- transgress
- call to order
- censure
- amend
- the question
- petitions
- memorials
- enactment of bills
- committee of the whole House
- impartial
Unit 4
- Imperial Presidency
- federal government
- agenda
- protocol
- republican versus monarchical
- favorite son candidate
- expediency
- trappings of monarchy
- Chief magistrate
Unit 5
- executive departments
- implication/ implied powers
- antifederalists
- virtual monarch
- judiciary
- Constitutional interpretation
- lunacy
- impeach
- legislative constructions
- implicit and explicit powers
- enumeration of powers
- expediency versus expressly given powers
- praetorium
- power of a motion
- tide waiter
- vociferous
- Chief Clerk in Department of Foreign Affairs
- ministers and consuls
- memorials
- Home Department
- quasi-executive and quasi-legislative
- comptroller
- Bachanalian
Unit 6
- federal precedent
- Judiciary Act 1789
- Unit 6 continued
- drafting subcommittee
- jurisdiction
- chief justice
- 5 associate justices
- quorum = 4
- district court / district judge
- scire facias, habeas corpus, writs
- in chancery
- disclosure on oath
- dissection
- constituents
- original jurisdiction versus appellate jurisdiction
- Admiralty Courts / maritime
Unit 7
- federal versus national government
- inherent rights
- enumeration of rights
- carrying, producing, manufacturing, slave = different economies
- impost
- constituents = district versus whole nation
Unit 8
- Confederation Congress
- requisition
- commercial treaty nations
- protectionist impost
- memorial
- smuggling
- appropriation
- pension
- warrants
Unit 9
- Advice and Consent
- Councils and Committees
- consul
- Barbary state (Algiers)
- hostage
- rescind
- Creek Nations
Unit 10
- destiny
- Northwest Ordinance
- Machiavellian maxim
Unit 11
- petition
- statute of limitation
- tabled
- copyright
- reinstate
- allegations
- approbation of the public
- assiduity
- memorials
- indemnification
- commitment (to committee)
- emporium
Unit 13
- foreign and domestic debt
- public credit
- creditors
- assumption of debt
- excise
- debt certificates
- public securities
- violation of contracts
- absorption of revenue
- subscriptions
Unit 14
- agrarian
- gambling systems of finance
- concomitant measure
- anodyne
- federal district
- excise
- federally chartered bank
- printed circular letter
- duties
- excisemen
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