Lesson 1
Guaranteed the basic freedoms and legal protections that the state’s citizens would enjoy.
What is the bill of rights?
55 well educated men.
Who were the delegates?
The lawmaking branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
People who lived in a state or region should decide what kind of government or laws they should have
What is Popular Sovereignity?
A detailed, written plan for government.
What is a Constitution?
League of friendship upon the individual states.
What are the articles of confederation?
Meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
The branch of government that interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
Power is shared by the national government and the states.
What is federalism?
Meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
A law that set up a plan for surveying western lands; this method is still used today.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
President, courts, and a congress with two houses. State population would decide how many representatives were in each house. Larger states would have more votes than smaller states.
What was the virginia Plan?
The branch of government that carries out laws.
What is the executive branch?
Powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states.
What are reserved powers?
The opening section of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory and served as a model for other new territories and as a plan for admitting new states to the Union.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
Confederation’s one-house congress. Each state would have one vote. But Congress could set taxes and regulate, or control, trade.
What was the new jersey plan?
To take on or accept a role or responsibility.
What does it mean to assume?
Powers granted directly to the national government by the Constitution; another name for expressed powers.
What are enumerated powers?
Powers granted directly to the national government by the Constitution; another name for expressed powers.
What are enumerated powers?
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 was Shay's Rebellion?
Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation.
What was the great compromise?
One of several main parts of the Constitution.
What is the preamble?
The clause in Article VI of the Constitution that makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict.
What is the Supremecy Clause?
Agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress.
What was the 3/5 Conpromise?