Civics - A Just Right Government

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