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Vocab
100
The first Constitution of the U.S.
What is the Articles of Confederation
100
A meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to create a new Constitution
What is the Constitutional Convention
100
The introduction to the Constitution
What is the Preamble
100
People rule
What is popular sovereignty
100
A legislature consisting of two parts, or house
What is bicameral
200
A group of individual state governments that unite for a common purpose
What is a confederation
200
State population would decide how many representatives there were in each house
What is the Virginia Plan
200
They describe the way the government is set up
What are the articles
200
The government can only do what the people allow it to do
What is limited government
200
A written plan for our government
What is the Constitution
300
Set up a plan for surveying land
What is the Ordinance of 1785
300
A one-house congress; each state would have one vote
What is the New Jersey Plan
300
Additions or changes done to the Constitution
What are amendments
300
Spliting into three seperate branches
What is seperation of powers
300
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president
What is the Electoral College
400
A plan for admitting new states into the Union
What is the Northwest Ordinance
400
An agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation
What is the Great Compromise
400
Not having to do word for word on what the Constitution has to say
What is loose interpretation
400
Each branch of government is able to check, or limit, the power of the other two branches
What is checks and balances
400
Supporters of the Constitution
What are Federalists
500
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution
What is Shay's Rebellion
500
For every five enslaved people it would count as three people
What is the Three-Fifths Conpromise
500
Doing exactly what the Constitution says to do
What is strict interpretation
500
Power is shared by the national government and the states
What is federalism
500
Those who opposed the raitification of the Constitution
What are Anti-Federalists
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