Foundation Documents and Individual Rights

3. Compromise Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation.
4. Any change in the constitution.
6. and Balances A system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of the others.
10. Approved.
11. A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses.
12. Compromise Agreements providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress.
13. Plan Federal government like today. It included a president, courts, and a congress. Large states had more votes than smaller states.
14. Detailed, written plan for government.
15. Jersey Plan Smaller states made their own plan which is called for a government similar to the one under articles of confederation.
16. of Rights Amendment place strict on how the national government can use its power.

1. College A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
2. of Confederation First constitution of the USA. It established a system for cooperation among independent states.
5. of Independence Written by Thomas Jefferson. It said that all colonies need rights and so they want to have freedom from Britain.
6. Liberties Freedoms to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair legal treatment.
7. Convention Meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of new constitution.
8. of Powers The split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
9. A form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, governments and the states.