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Vocab
100
Constitution
What is a detailed, written plan for government
100
Anti-federalist
What is the people who don't agree with the new constitution
100
Amendments
What is changes to the Constitution
100
Limited Government
What is the type of government that can only do what the people allow it to do
100
ratifying
What is approving something or voting for something
200
Ordinance of 1785
What is a plan for surveying western lands
200
federalism
What is the form government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the states
200
Preamble
What is the introduction to the constitution
200
Setting Up Schools
What is 1 example of a reserved power
200
Process
What is series of actions directed toward an result
300
Shays Rebellion
What is the rebellion leading to the change of the articles of confederation
300
Constitutional Convention
What is the meeting of delegates in Philadelphia
300
Article I
What is the outline of the lawmaking powers of the legislative branch
300
Popular Sovereignty
What is the principle that states the government lies with the people
300
Electoral College
What is the group of people that select the president
400
Articles of confederation
What is the first constitution of the United States of America
400
Three-Fifths Compromise
What is the law that was used to count slaves based off population
400
Supreme Court
What is The final group for interpreting the Constitution
400
Baron De Montesquieu
What is the name of the French thinker that came up with the idea to separate the power between three branches
400
Judicial Branch
What is the branch of government that interprets the laws
500
Bicameral
What is a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
500
Great Compromise
What is a compromise that made both the larger and smaller states happy
500
Articles
What is the main parts of the constitution
500
Checks and Balances
What is the system where the branches can check and limit the other branches
500
Executive branch
What is the branch that carries out the laws
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