Drafting
Representatives are sent here to revise the Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Enslaved people were represented in the Constitution with the…
Three-Fifths Compromise
A government in which citizens rule themselves
A Republic
An idea to keep any person or group from gaining too much power
Separation of Powers
The first time the formal term "The United States of America" was used.
Declaration of Independence.
In this plan the number of representatives was based on population
The Virginia Plan
Following accepted standards for conduct or behavior is……
Ethical
Encouraging citizen participation
Civic republicanism
English writer who said people have natural rights
John Locke
This word does not appear once in the Constitution.
democracy
In this plan each state would have one vote
The New Jersey Plan
Something received by a predecessor or from the past.
legacy
A government in which one person or a small group holds complete authority
Dictatorship
Americans most favorite food.
Pizza
The State that did not send delegates to the Constitution Convention
Rhode Island
This is a solution in which each side gives up some of its demands.
Compromise
The leader of the Constitutional Convention
George Washington
Contained two basic ideas that helped to both British and American Government
The Magna Carta
Oldest active constitution
United States Constitution
The Constitution has been changed this many times since the Bill of Rights
17
A two house legislature with each state having two senators. The amount of representatives would be based on population.
The Great Compromise
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union….
The Preamble
An economic system in which business compete freely with little government control
free enterprise
Shortest Written Constitution
United States Constitution
The word slavery appears how many times in the Constitution?
Zero