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Challenging
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The Constitution
What is a detailed, written plan for government called?
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The 3/5's Compromise
What is the agreement that every 5 slaves would count as 3 votes?
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the Preamble
What is, the intro to the Constitution called?
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Limited Government
What is the word for the government can do only what the people allow it to do?
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It is found in Article VI. The supremacy clause states that the Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government “shall be the supreme Law of the Land. Because the Constitution is the highest law, the national government is not supposed to act against it.
What is the supreme clause?
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Articles Of Confederation
What is the first document and/ first constitution of the United States of America called?
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The Great Compromise
What is, the plan that Rodger Sherman had that historians call?
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The Articles
What is the middle of the constitution called? And describes the way the government is set up.
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Separation Of Powers
What is the division of authority called?
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Everyone in the debt. And the farmers got mad cause they raised taxes so they rebelled against it.
What is and what was the reason that Shay's Rebellion started?
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The Ordinance of 1785
What is a plan for surveying western lands.[measuring a piece of land.] It divided the land into townships six miles square. Each township was further divided into 36 sections, each one mile square.
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Electoral Collage
What is the compromise about the national government that the Delegates talked about?
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the legislative branch
What is branch makes the laws for us?
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Checks and Balances
What is the system called when each branch of government is able to check, or limit, the power of the other two branches in a number of ways?
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81 years old! And was the oldest delegate.
What is and how old was B. Franklin when he attended the convention in May 25, 1787?
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Northwest Ordinance
What is The second ordinance passed in 1787. This law set up a government for this area, which was called the Northwest Territory. The ordinance also provided a plan for admitting new states to the Union.
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Federalists
What is the name for people who support the Constitution?
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the executive branch
What is the branch that enforces laws?
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enumerated powers
What is the powers directly granted to the national government?
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The Bill Of Rights
What is the first 10 amendments called?
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ratify
What is another word for approve
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Anti- Federalists
What is, the name of people who DIDN'T support the Constitution?
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judicial branch
What is the branch that interprets laws?
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Concurrent Powers
What is the authority of the national and state governments overlap in some cases? [In other words what power]
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the Constitution
What is the document that are government relies on today?