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Who's got the power?
The Meeting
Compromises and Plans
The branches
100
The document that declared our separation from Great Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence
100
Did not allow the federal government to raise taxes
What are the Articles of the Confederation
100
Name of the meeting that lasted four months starting in May of 1787
What is the Constitutional Convention
100
The compromise that 3 out of 5 slaves count as a free person
What is the Three- Fifths Compromise
100
The branch also called Congress
What is the Legislative Branch
200
The document that defines the government
What is the Constitution
200
Allowed the central government to create a post office ( hint: 2 answers)
What are the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
200
The reason for the meeting
What is the central government needed more power
200
The plan that wanted votes based on population
What is the Virginia Plan
200
Can veto a law or bill
What is the Executive Branch
300
The first version of the Constitution
What are the Articles of the Confederation
300
Enforces the laws
What it the Executive Branch
300
suggested a new constitution
who is James Madison
300
The plan that wanted every state to have just one vote
What is the New Jersey Plan
300
The two parts of the legislative branch
What is the House of Representatives and Senate
400
Guarantees the rights and liberties to all people
What is the Bill of Rights
400
Makes the laws
Who is Legislative Branch
400
a system created at the meeting that holds each branch of government power over the other
What are Checks and Balances
400
The plan that the house of representatives had votes based on population and the senate had 2 votes per state
What is the Connecticut Plan
400
The number of judges in the supreme court
What are nine justices
500
Outlines the purpose of the Constitution
What is the Preamble to the Constitution
500
The power to dectermine if laws are constitutional
What is the Judicial Branch
500
the number of states represented at the meeting
What is 12 states ( only Rode Island)
500
Compromise or solution to peoples fear of giving too much power to one person
What are the three branches of government
500
Has the power to decide to go to wa
What is the legislative branch
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