Articles of Confederation - A New Nation

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  1. 2. The branch that interprets laws
  2. 5. The Articles did not let Congress recruit this, only the states
  3. 7. The branch that carries out laws
  4. 9. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  5. 11. The chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
  6. 13. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on its:
  7. 14. Under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  8. 15. One problem was that states charged these on goods from other states
  9. 19. A group of individuals united for a purpose
  10. 20. States must treat their own citizens and other states’ citizens this way
  11. 22. Fraction of states that must agree to change the Constitution
  12. 23. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
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  1. 1. The only state that did not attend the Constitutional Convention
  2. 3. The branch that makes laws
  3. 4. The Constitution says laws passed by Congress are __________________ to state laws.
  4. 6. States send these to Congress
  5. 8. The Articles of Confederation was the first plan for a U.S.:
  6. 10. Under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  7. 12. These were the “individuals” in the “confederation” created by the Articles
  8. 16. Under the A of C, Congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws
  9. 17. The Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  10. 18. The document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
  11. 21. Under the Articles, the U.S. did not have one of these