Match the key term with the correct description. 1. sons of liberty 2. daughters of liberty 3. committees of correspondence 4. thomas paine’s common sense 5. declaration of independence 6. thomas jefferson and the committee of five tasked with drafting a statement to represent the continental congress delegates’ decision to seek independence from britain group organized in massachusetts in 1772 to promote communication among colonies about british threats to colonial liberty and to plan resistance to those threats official explanation for american independence; americans renounced their “allegiance to the british crown” pamphlet written to convince colonists to declare independence from the british crown; spelled out the reasons why the colonies sever all ties with england group of planters, merchants, and lawyers in the american colonies who protested british taxes consisted of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of british goods following the passage of the townsend acts

in the united states, the president is controlled by the

constitution, and in all respects subordinate to it. insofar

as it deals with presidential power, however, the american

constitution has proved to be a highly malleable document.

with very few exceptions,' the constitutional provisions relating to the president have not been changed at all since

they were ratified in 1787. but in the late twentieth century, those provisions do not mean what they meant in

1787. the constitution is a legal document, and it is enforced judicially; but its meaning was hardly fixed when it

was ratified. in particular, the contemporary president has

far broader powers than the original constitution contemplated. it is remarkable but true that large-scale changes in

the authority of the president have been brought about

without changes in the constitutional text, but nevertheless

without significant illegality.

this is a paradox. is it not clear that constitutional

changes, if not textual, are illegal? the paradox has considerable relevance to our current thinking about the presidency in particular and about constitutionalism in general.

perhaps the framers of the american constitution feared

legislative power most of all; 2 but from well-known events

in the twentieth century, it is possible to conclude that it is

presidential power that holds out the greatest risks to both

liberty and democracy. the president is by far the most visible leader in the nation; he is often the only person in government with a national constituency. moreover, he is