Vocab
A person, especially a political leader, who gains power by appealing to the emotions and prejudices of the people.
What is a demagogue?
This person chose to serve as president over the Constitutional Convention.
Who was George Washington?
States represented in this proposal would be proportional to population.
What is the House of Representatives?
These people opposed a strong central goernment.
What are the anti-federalists?
This plan had a 2 house legislature w/ representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
To cancel a law enacted by a body of government.
What is to override?
Edmund Randolph prposed this plan at the Constitutional Convention.
What was the Virginia Plan?
States represented in this proposal would be equal regardless of population.
What is the Senate?
Many of the states wanted this added to the Constitution because they feared the federal government would abolish their customs, rights, and established laws.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This plan would only revise the Articles of Confederation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
What is impeachment?
William Paterson proposed this plan at the Conventional Constitution.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
These people write the Federalist.
Who are James Madison and Alexander Hamilton?
This refers to a form of political association which concentrates some of all authority and power in an over-arching government of the entire nation, rather than its component parts.
What is national?
This plan proposed representing states equally in the national legistlature.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
These people proposed a strong central government.
What is a federalist?
This plan helped reconcile the nationalist and anti-nationalists at the Constitutional Convention.
What was the Connecticut Compromise?
This was important because it was a written defense of the new Constitution.
What was The Federalist?
A permanent military force, consisting of trained professional soldiers.
What is a standing army?
This plan proposed the president would be chosen by the legislature.
What is the Virginia Plan?
A system of courts in a country.
What is a judiciary?
The Connecticut delegate who proposed the Connecticut Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
This is the year the meeting of the Constitutional Convention happened.
When was 1787?
Contrasting to a standing army, this is a group of civilians, usually citizens.
What is a militia?
This plan proposed appointing members of a "national judiciary?"
What is the Virginia Plan?