Articles and Constitution

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  1. 9. The branch of the US Government that creates our laws
  2. 11. What fraction of the states have to agree in order to change the Constitution?
  3. 12. The branch of the US Government that interprets the laws
  4. 13. States send these to congress
  5. 14. States were worried that they might lose this by creating a government
  6. 15. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on this
  7. 16. In the Articles, it created only one of these
  8. 17. The Articles let Congress create this but not pay for it
  9. 18. What is the document that would end up replacing the Articles of Confederation
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  1. 1. The branch of the US Government that enforces/carries out the laws
  2. 2. Under the Constitution, the laws created by Congress are ________ to state laws
  3. 3. Each state gets two votes here, irregardless of population
  4. 4. Under the Articles, the US did not have one of these
  5. 5. Under the New Jersey plan, these states had more power
  6. 6. Which states had more power under the Virginia Plan?
  7. 7. Under the articles, states were charging these to each other for trading beteween states
  8. 8. The Articles were the first plan that the US created for ______________________
  9. 10. With the Articles, states could ignore the laws Congress passed because they had no power to _______ them