creating a new constitution

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  1. 5. this branch of the U.S. government enforces laws
  2. 8. the legislature branch of the U.S. government consists of this body of people
  3. 10. Proposed keeping a single-house legislative body where every state received one vote regardless of population, protecting smaller states from being dominated by larger ones.
  4. 11. this branch of the U.S. government makes laws
  5. 12. means having, consisting of, or based on two separate legislative chambers or houses
  6. 13. the first government of the U.S.
  7. 14. this is the branch of the U.S. government that interprets the laws
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  1. 1. this is the leader of the executive branch
  2. 2. Originally called to revise the weak Articles of Confederation, the 55 delegates from 12 states (Rhode Island did not attend) chose instead to draft a brand-new framework for the U.S. government.
  3. 3. an agreement reached on July 16, 1787, during the Constitutional Convention that established the dual-house (bicameral) legislative structure of the United States Congress
  4. 4. established steps to become a state
  5. 6. It stated that 60% of the enslaved population in each state would be counted when calculating total population
  6. 7. It called for a two-house national legislature where representation for each state was proportional to its population (or tax contributions), heavily favoring larger states.
  7. 9. an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787 by impoverished farmers and Revolutionary War veterans—led or inspired by Daniel Shays—who protested high state taxes, debt foreclosures, and the lack of economic relief.
  8. 11. divided sections of land to be sold