The Constitutional Convention
An elected official.
What are delegates?
He presented the Virginia Plan at the start of the convention.
What is Edmund Randolph?
Takes place when people on both sides of an issue give up something to reach an agreement.
What is a compromise?
Expressed the main goals of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
Refusal to sign a law.
What is a veto?
The new written plan for government.
What is the Constitution?
He proposed the New Jersey plan.
What is William Paterson?
Wanted their population counts to include the large numbers of enslaved African Americans living in their states.
What is the Southern states?
This government plan had only one branch of government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Percentage of Congress that can reject a veto.
What is two-thirds?
Delegates met in May of 1887 to strengthen the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
It called for an executive branch to carry out laws and a judicial branch to decide their meaning. States with larger populations would have more representatives in Congress.
What is the Virginia Plan?
He proposed that Congress be made up of two parts, or houses.
What is Roger Sherman?
The new U.S. Constitution set up a government with these many branches.
What is 3 branches?
Each branch has ways of limiting the powers of the other branches.
What is checks and balances?
Did not attend the convention but strongly defended the Articles of Confederation.
What is Patrick Henry?
They would have more power in the government.
What is larger states?
The delegates debated for a month before agreeing.
What is the Great Compromise?
The first three words of the Preamble.
What is We the people?
The idea that the powers and duties of government are divided among separate branches.
What is separation of powers?
Believed that the central government created by the Articles of Confederation was too weak.
What is Alexander Hamilton?
It called for an executive branch to carry out laws and a judicial branch to decide their meaning. It called for each state to have the same number of representatives
What is the New Jersey Plan?
States would count enslaved people both for representation and for taxes. But only three of every five slaves would be counted.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Powers are divided between the national and state governments.
What is the federal system?
Can overturn President's actions if it finds them to be against the Constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch?