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10 Cards in this Set
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Constitutional Convention |
Meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new constitution |
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Legislative Branch |
The law making branch of government |
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Executive Branch |
The branch of government that carries out laws |
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Judicial branch |
The branch that interprets laws |
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Great compromise |
Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation |
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Three fifths compromise |
agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress |
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Electoral college |
a group of people named by each state legislature to select the President and Vice President |
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Federalists |
supporters of the Constitution |
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Federalism |
A form of government in which power is divided between the federal or national government, and the states |
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Anti-Federalists |
Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution |
