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The Ordinance of 1785
What is surveyed and divided land into townships that are 6 square miles.
100
The Virginia Plan
What is presidents, courts, congress with two houses and population will determine representation in each house.
100
The Preamble
What is the introduction to the Constitution.
100
Popular sovereignty
What is the power of the government lies with the people.
100
electoral college
What is a group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
200
The Northwest Ordinance
What is a law that set up a territory to become a state it also outlawed slavery into territories.
200
The New Jersey Plan
What is a one house congress, each state gets one vote, congress will set taxes and regulate trade, committee to carry out the laws.
200
Article I
What is explains the legislative branch and its power.
200
Limited government
What is the government can do only what the people allow them to do.
200
legislative branch
What is the lawmaking branch of the government.
300
9 of 13 states needed to pass a law
What is a weakness of the Articles.
300
The Great Compromise
What is two house legislative branch, senate = each state gets two members, House of Representatives and representation based on population.
300
Bill of Rights
What is the first 10 amendments.
300
Rule of Law
What is laws apply to everyone even those who gover.
300
executive branch
What is the branch of the government that carries out the laws.
400
Shay's Rebellion
What is a rebellion that lead people to want to change the Articles of Confederation.
400
The 3/5 Compromise
What is how they counted slaves into the population.
400
Loose interpretation
What is does not read the constitution word for word.
400
Separation of Powers
What is the framers divided the federal government into three branches to help limit its power.
400
judicial branch
What is the branch of the government that interprets the laws.
500
Articles of Confederation
What is the first government the US had.
500
A Federalist
What is someone who approved the new constitution.
500
Strict interpretation
What is reads the constitution word for word.
500
Federalism
What is the power shared by both state and federal government
500
ratified
What is to vote approval of.