Key
Terms
Terms
A one-house Legislature?
What is Unicameral?
Known as the "Father of the Constitution" for his ideas about government and his ability to lead the delegates to agreement.
Who is James Madison?
In what month and year was the constitutional Convention held?
What is May 1787?
The agreement to create a two house legislature.
What was the Great Compromise?
This branch is responsible for proposing and passing laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
This keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
Who was elected as president of the Convention?
Who is George Washington?
What month and year was the final draft of the constitution complete?
What is September 1787?
What are the Commerce Compromises?
This branch is made up of the national courts
What is the Judicial Branch?
The idea that political authority belongs to the people
What is popular Sovereignty?
People who we elect to represent us
Who are delegates?
The plan that gave sovereignty, or supreme power, to the central government.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This Branch includes the president and the departments that help run the government
What is the executive branch?
The sharing of power between a central government and the states that make up a country.
What is federalism?
The man who purposed the Virginia Plan
Who is Edmund Randolph?
Which three groups of people where not allowed to attend the Constitutional Convention?
Who are Women, African Americans and Native Americans?
The plan that called for a Unicameral, or one-house legislature. This is also the plan that gave each states an equal number of votes.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
How many representatives would each branch get in the legislature per the Great Compromise?
What is 2 representatives?
Supreme power by the government.
What is sovereignty?
Who was Roger Sherman?
Who is the man who proposed the Great Compromise?
What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention?
What is to improve the Articles of Confederation?
Under this agreement only three-fifths of the state's slaves population could count when determining representation.
What is the three-fifths compromise?
The number of representatives in the House of Representatives would be determined by what?
What is the states population?