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23 Cards in this Set
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Constitutional Convention
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Meeting in Philadelphia
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Legislative Branch |
The legislative branch is the part of the United States government that creates laws. |
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Executive Branch |
Carry out laws |
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Judicial branch |
the judicial branch is the part of the government that interprets law and sees that they are fairly applied |
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Great Compromise |
the sherman's plan |
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Three-Fifths Compromise |
In the Three-Fifths Compromise,delegates agreed that every five enslaved persons would count as three free persons.Thus three-fifths of the slave population in each state would be used in determining representation in Congress. |
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Electoral College |
Group responsible for determining who will become President |
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Federalists |
supporters of federalism. |
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Federalism |
power split between federal (central) government and states. |
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Anti-Federalists |
Anti-Federalism refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution. |
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Compromise |
A compromise is a way of resolving disagreements in which each side gives up something but gains something else. |
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Constitution |
a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed. |
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Preamble |
introduction to the Constitution, outlines reasons for writing. |
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Amendment |
To change or revise |
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Bill of Rights |
the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. |
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income tax |
the Sixteenth Amendment was passed in 1913 to allow Congress to collect an income tax a tax on people’s earnings. |
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Popular Sovereignty |
The idea that government power is in the hands of the people |
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Rule of law |
the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws. |
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Separation of powers |
an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies. |
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Checks and balances |
System that prevents any one branch of government from becoming too powerful |
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Expressed powers |
Expressed powers are those powers directly stated in the Constitution. |
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Reserved powers |
powers assigned to the states and the people. |
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Concurrent powers |
Powers that both levels of government can exercise are called concurrent powers. |
