Plans in Action
This plan favored larger states by basing representation on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This branch of government enforces laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The Federalist Papers were written to encourage the adoption of this document.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The Three-Fifths Compromise allowed states to count enslaved people as this fraction of a person for representation.
What is three-fifths?
Federalists believed in this type of government to maintain order and stability.
What is a strong central government?
The compromise that resolved debates over representation in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This power allows the President to reject laws passed by Congress.
What is the veto?
This state was the first to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What is Delaware?
This clause required that escaped enslaved people be returned to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?
This group believed the new Constitution gave too much power to the national government and did not protect individual rights.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This plan proposed equal representation for all states, regardless of size.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This branch of government is responsible for interpreting the Constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch?
These three men wrote the Federalist Papers in support of ratification.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
Anti-Federalists demanded the addition of this to the Constitution to protect individual freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Constitutional Convention's delegates sought to create a government that could balance the power between federal and state governments. What is the term for this system, and how does it maintain this balance?
What is federalism?
Federalism divides power between national and state governments, with some powers shared and others reserved for the states or federal government exclusively.
The Great Compromise created this type of legislature, with one house based on population and the other with equal representation.
What is a bicameral legislature?
This was the main the type of government Anti-Federalist feared from building up the central government?
What is the lack of a monarchy?
The Three-Fifths Compromise affected this two-fold aspect of government.
What are representation and taxation?
The Federalists believed this group of people was best suited to govern and maintain stability.
Who are the educated and property-owning elite?
The Virginia Plan proposed that the legislative branch be divided into two houses. What were these houses based on?
What is population or financial contributions?
This part of the Constitution ensures no branch of government has too much power by allowing each branch to limit the power of the others.
What is the system of checks and balances?
Rhode Island was the last state to ratify the Constitution. What caused this delay?
What is the lack of individual protections and a general fear of a strong central government?
This issue was avoided by allowing states to decide whether to allow slavery, with Congress not able to interfere for two decades.
What is the Atlantic slave trade?
The Anti-Federalists were most concerned that the new government would lead to this.
What is tyranny or abuse of power?