What is this? They were divided into 2 parts, or houses.
bicameral
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What did the Virginia Plan do?
What is it had 2 houses and based on the population in towns it would decide on how many represenatives there will. The largers states would have more votes then the smaller states would.
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What is Preamble.
What is the opening section of the Constitution.
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What is popular sovereignty
The idea that the power of the government lies with the people
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A detailed writen plan for the government.
What is Constitution
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What is Ordinance of 1785.
It set up a plan for surveying the western land. It divided the land into townships six miles square.
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.How did the larger states react when the New Jersey Plan was made and when the smaller staes had the same power as them.
The larger states didn't like the New Jersey Plan because the smaller states had as much power as they did. So the larger states said they wanted states with more people to have more power
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What is the middle section has the six purposes of the government.
Which part of the Preamble (first)(middle)(end) has the six purposes of the government.
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Why does Baron de Montesquieu break the government into 3 branches?
What is Baron de Montesquieu breaks the government into 3 equal branches because Baron believed that people's rights would be protected by breaking into 3 equal branches. Legislaive branch, Executive branch, and Judicial branch.
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What is Confederation
A group of individuals or state governments.
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Why did Shay start his rebellion?
What is Shay started his rebellion because the government was taxing people because of the war so Shay started the rebellion.
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Why were the North and South fighting about?
What is the North and South were fighting about was counting slaves as people to get more population.
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How much does people need Congress or a state legislative branch proposal an amendment.
2/3 of it.
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.How does checks and balances work?
Checks and balances work by under a system of checks and balances, each branch of the government is able to check, or limit, the power of the other 2 branches in anyway
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What is Ordinance.
A law, usually of a city or country
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What is one weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
One weakness of the Articles of Confederation is you needed all 13 states to agree to change, or any attempt to amend.
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Why were the Anti federalist against the Articles of Confederation?
They were against it because the Articles of Confederation didn't have a bill of rights to protect the people's rights.
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How many amendments would make the bill of rights?
Their would be 10 amendments to make up the bill of rights.
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are the 3 types of powers?
The 3 types of powers are enumerated power, reserved power, and concurrent power.What
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What is Eletoral College
A group of people named by each state legislative to select the vise president and the president.
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How did farmers get thrown in jail when they were taxed heavily?
The farmers were thrown in jail because the people wouldn't buy their crops because they were taxed heavily. So the famrers were thrown in jail because they couldn't pay off their taxes becuase people weren't buying their crops.
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.Why did the delegates count five slaves as free people?
The delegates did that because they needed more people for gettting more represenatives and more power
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What does the 3 branches do?
Legislative = make the laws
Executive = enforce the law
Judicial = make sure that the people are following the laws.
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What does the supremacy clause do?
The supremacy clause states that the constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government shall be the supreme law of the land.