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a person who is a member of a community with rights and responsibilities
What is a Citizen?
a document or record that describes the way a government is organized and functions
What is the Constitution?
an agreement between multiple sides who have different opinions, in which each gives up something it had wanted
What is Compromise ?
Created during the Revolutionary War, Adopted in 1777 and approved by the states in 1781, was the United States’ first constitution. Approved after compromises were made over land, state boundaries, how much power the national government would have, and how states would be represented
What are the Articles of Confederation?
During the Revolution, This Government Waged war against Great Britain, Negotiated a treaty of alliance with France, Negotiated the Treaty of Paris with Britain to end the Revolutionary War. After the Revolution This Government passed a series of land ordinances that Established the national government’s authority over western territories.
What are the Strengths of the Articles of Confederation?
This Government in order to make a new law required the support of 9 out of 13 states, to change an existing law required the support of 13 out of 13 states, had to request money from state governments
What are the Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
the part of the government with the power to make laws
What is the Legislative branch?
the part of the government with the power to enforce laws
What is the Executive branch?
the part of the government with the power to interpret laws
What is the Judicial Branch?
when the number of representatives from each state is the same
What is Equal Representation?
when the number of representatives from each state is based on the state’s population
What is Proportional representation?
powers that the people give to the national government through the Constitution
What are delegated powers?
powers that the people reserve to the state governments through the Constitution
What are reserved powers?
not following the rules and right of the U.S. Constitution
What is Unconstitutional?
someone who supported the ratification of the U.S. Constitution
What is a Federalist?
someone who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution
What is an Anti-Federalist?
the highest court in the United States, which is made up of nine judges called justices
What is the Supreme Court?
created two chambers of Congress, one based on proportional representation (House), and the other based on equal representation (Senate), in order to create a government that met the needs of various groups through compromise.
What is The Great Compromise?
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What is The Connecticut Compromise?
A Compromise in which the delegates at the Convention agreed to count enslaved persons as a three-fifths ratio to their total number for both representation and taxation. The fraction gave the South more representation in Congress than they would have had by counting just Free persons.
What is The Three-Fifths Compromise?
limits the government’s power and protects the rights of the people by giving the people the power to choose who represents them in government.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
is the principle that not all of the government’s power is in one place: it's divided between national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
limits the government by making sure no one part of government holds all the decision-making power by establishing three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial.
What are The Separation of powers?
limit the power of government by giving each branch the chance to respond to the actions of another, making sure that no one branch has too much power.
What are Checks and Balances?
was included in the Constitution as a compromise to settle the Federalist and Anti-Federalist debates. It added 10 amendments to the Constitution that protected individual liberties and limited the power of government. These rights allow people to hold their government accountable through things like free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom from unfair search and seizure.
What are the Bill of Rights?
are outlined and protected in the Constitution allow citizens to continue to use their voices to hold their government accountable for protecting the rights of the people. It is important to be informed about how our Constitution and government are set up so that we can continue to maintain it.
What are Rights and Responsiblities?