Vocab
The right to vote.
What is Suffrage
To keep alive and existing.
What is Preservation
The president of the convention
Who is George Washington
system of government in which the same nation is controlled by two levels of government.
What is Federalism
The state that did not attend the constitutional convention
What is Rhode Island
The oldest delegate of the Constitutional Convention
Who is Benjamin Franklin $100
A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
What is a Republic
A an elected ruling body, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
What is legislature
The unofficial secretary of the Constitutional Convention
Who is James Madison
electoral system in which the number of seats held by a particular state in the Legislature is directly determined by the states population.
What is Proportional Representation
The amount of delegates that was at the constitutional convention
what was 55 delegates
The state plan that gave representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan
A group of states or nations united into one political body, as that of the American colonies at the time of the Revolution.
What is a Union
The man who coined the phrase We The People
Who is Goovener "Peg Leg" Morris
The state plan that had representation based on Equality.
What is the New Jersey Plan