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Vocab Words
100
Bicameral
What were most of the Legislatures?
100
The Great Compromise
What was the agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation?
100
preamble
What is the introduction to the constitution?
100
Popular Sovereignty
What is the idea that the power lies with the people?
100
Articles of Confederation
What is the first government for the United states?
200
Ordinance of 1785
What set up a plan for surveying western land?
200
Three-Fifths Compromise
What agreement let enslaved people count as 3/5 people count in determining representations in Congress?
200
Articles
What is one of several main parts in the constitution?
200
Limited Government
What is the principal that a ruler or a government is not all-powerful?
200
Constitution
What is a detailed, written plan for government?
300
Shay's Rebellion
What made the government think twice about the Articles of Confederation?
300
Electoral College
What group what select a president and a vice president?
300
Legislative Branch
What is the lawmaking branch of the government?
300
Separation of powers
What is the split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
300
Constitutional Covention
What was the meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution for?
400
Bill of Rights
What included the American ideals of individual rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
400
Federalists
Who are supporters of the Constitution?
400
Executive Branch
What is the branch of government that carries out law?
400
Checks and Balances
What is a system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of the others?
400
Amednments
What is any change to the constitution?
500
Northwest Territory
What set up a law for the Northwest Territory?
500
Anti-federalists
Who is against the Constitution?
500
Judicial Branch
What is the branch that interprets laws?
500
Federalism
What is further limits on the government?
500
Supremacy clause
What is the clause in Article VI of the Constitution that makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict?