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The meeting held from May to September 1787 at which the Constitution was written. Also called the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Philadelphia Convention
one choice for each group
What is Equal Representation
An agreement made that 3 out of 5 enslaved persons would be counted toward the population total of a state.
What is the 3/5 compromise?
What is a bill?
Taxes on products imported from other nations, which increases the cost of the products
What are protective tariffs?
The delegates to the Philadelphia Convention. They are the group of men who composed the United States Constitution.
What are the Framers.
Number of choices based on number of people or population.
What is proportional representation?
A person who represents other people at a meeting. - Not Representatives
What is a delegate.
to confirm and approve
What is ratify?
an attempt to have a lower court's decision reversed or changed for other reasons
people who fought against ratification of the U.S. Constitution
any enslaved person that escaped to a northern state must be returned to their enslaver.
What is the fugitive slave clause?
those in favor of ratifying the U.S. Constitution
What is a Federalist?
have the highest authority
What is sovereign?
powers specifically listed in the Constitution
What is an enumerated power?
the practice of dividing and sharing the powers of government between a central government and regional governments.
What is federalism?
the sovereign people decide how to delegate authority.
What is the federal system?
states that the Constitution, and laws that come from it, are the final say (sovereign).
What is the Supremacy Clause?
the legal authority of a court to hear appeals from a lower court.
What is an appellate jurisdiction?
the legal authority of a court to be the first to hear a case.
What is original jurisdiction?
you must be charged with a crime to be incarcerated
What is Writ of Habeas Corpus?
you cannot be charged with breaking the law if what you did was legal at the time you did it.
What is ex post facto?
an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial.
What is a bill of an attainder?
union of sovereign groups or states united for purposes of common action.
What is a confederation