creating the constitution

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  1. 8. to approve something formally.
  2. 9. a region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
  3. 11. a country governed by elected representatives
  4. 12. a plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress
  5. 13. a written plan that provides the basic framework of a government
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  1. 1. a series of essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in support of the ratification of the Constitution by the states.
  2. 2. the first written plan of government for the United States
  3. 3. decided how slaves would be counted for states´ population
  4. 4. a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed
  5. 5. the “Age of Reason” in 17th- and 18th-century Europe.
  6. 6. A law passed by congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed.
  7. 7. the group established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president. Voters in each state choose their electors.
  8. 10. often called the ¨Father of the constitution¨