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Vocab
100
Congress could not pass a law unless 9 out of 13 states agreed, Needed all 13 states to agree to change the constitution, Congress passed the laws but needed the states to enforce them, Congress didn’t have the power to tax.
What is the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation?
100
Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and James Madison.
What is the most important delegates?
100
Outlines the powers and the setup of the legislative branch, describes the power and the setup of the executive branch, and describes the setup of the judicial branch and describes the cases that it will hear.
What is the first three Articles?
100
popular sovereignty, limited government and the rule of law, separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism.
What is the 5 principles creating the constitution?
100
A written plan for government.
What is the Constitution?
200
A plan for adding states into the Union, it also ended slavery in the Northwest territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
200
People who opposed the constitution were known as anti-federalist. People who supported the new constitution were called federalist.
What is anti-federalist and federalists?
200
Preamble, articles, and amendments.
What is the three main parts of the constitution?
200
States that the constitution is the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
200
A group of individuals or state government.
What is the confederation?
300
A law that divides land up into townships.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
300
Three branches, Legislative, Judicial, executive and a two house legislative branch, representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
There are 27 amendments, and the first 10 make up the Bill of Rights.
What is the number of amendments in the constitution and how many are Bill of Rights.
300
A republic is a government in which the people elect the officers in it, and the people have the right to rule.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
Someone who supports the constitution.
What is a federalist?
400
Many delegates wanted a stronger federal government.
What is the cause of Shay's Rebellion?
400
A one branch Legislative where one house, each state gets one vote, congress could set taxes and control trade and congress can make a committee to carry out its laws.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
Changes that are made to the constitution.
What is the amendments?
400
The power that is shared between the national government and the states.
What is Federalism?
400
A legislature consisting of two parts or houses.
What is a bicameral?
500
Legislative branch to make laws, a governor to enforce the laws, and a court system.
What is each state government have?
500
Northerners and Southerners disagreed on how to count slaves in the population so the delegates decided that for every 5 slaves would count as 3 in the population.
What is the Three - Fifths Compromise?
500
Describe the way the government is set up.
What is the Articles?
500
Enumerated Power, Reserved Power, and Concurrent Power.
What is the parts of Federalism?
500
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
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