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limited government - A government that is subject to strict legal limits on the users of power representative government - a government in which people govern through the selection of their representatives conflict between limited and representative governments - representative governments have majority rule, but limited government requires that the majority rule does not infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of the majority how the U.S. Constitution provides for limited government - by defining lawful powers and by dividing those powers among competing institutions how the U.S. Constitution provides for representative government - through indirect methods of electing representatives. Stamp Act - "no taxation without representation" Townshend Act - imposed taxes on all glass, paper, tea, and lead. First Continental Congress - 1774 in Philadelphia. Colonists formulated demands on the Britain, asking for their own councils for the imposition of taxes, an end to the British military occupation, and a guarantee of trial by local juries. April 19, 1775 - 'the shot heard round the world' in Lexington and Concord; start of the American Revolution John Locke - claimed that government is founded on a social contract. People living in a state of nature enjoy certain inalienable rights (natural rights) , including life, liberty, and property. Jefferson paraphrased these ideas in the Declaration of Independence. Locke's social contract - the idea that people form a government to protect their natural rights. constitution - the fundamental law that defines how a government will legitimately operate. The highest law of the land. Articles of Confederation - The basis for the first government of the United States. It created a very weak federal government subordinate to the states. There was no judiciary and no independent executive. Shay's Rebellion - revolt in western Massachusetts; farmers armed with pitchforks marched on county courthouses to prevent foreclosures on their land. Quashed by a private militia but it exposed the weakness of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation. Constitutional Convention of 1787 - sole and express purpose was to revise the Articles of Confederation but the delegates drafted a new constitution.