1. Establishing a Constitutional Democracy

3. Timeline: Key Points in the Democratization of the United States

5. Taxation Without Representation Levying of taxes by a government in which the people are not represented by their own elected officials.

6. Hobbes and his Leviathan Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) thought that humans are by nature warlike and selfish. His treatise Leviathan held that the only way to maintain human society was for individuals to consent to rule by a single, all-powerful leader or government.

7. The Wealthy in State Legislatures

8. Map of Competing Claims

10. The Connecticut Compromise

12. Electoral College Those chosen to cast a direct vote for president by a process determined by each state.

14. Amending the Constitution: A Two-Stage Process