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2. Jersey Plan The plan presented at the Philadelphia Convention that called for a one-house national legislature with each state having equal representation.
4. clause The clause provided that each slave should be counted as three-fifths of a person in determining the number of representatives a state might send to the House of Representatives.
6. Compromise A plan accepted at the Philadelphia Convention that called for Congress to have two houses. In the Senate representation of the states would be equal, with each state having two senators.
7. tax on imported or exported goods or a list or system that describes such taxes. fugitive slave clause which stated that slaves who escaped must be returned to their owners. It was later abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment.
9. representation The electoral system in which the number of representatives for a state is based on the number of people who live in that state.

1. The power or authority to hear cases and make decisions.
3. College The group of presidential electors who cast the official votes for president and vice-president after a presidential election.
5. representation The idea that each state should have the same number of representatives in Congress.
8. Plan The plan presented at the Philadelphia Convention that provided for a national government composed of three branches.