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- 6. group established by the Constitution to elect president and vice president
- 8. ___-___ Compromise; enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths a person when determining a states population
- 9. government must follow clear rules and act reasonably as it carries out the law
- 12. Northwest ____; 1787, a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed
- 13. 1791, a formal listing of the basic rights of the US citizens
- 14. formally approve a plan or agreement
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- 1. Great ____; 1787, established two houses of congress, a House of Representatives a Senate
- 2. ___ Papers; 1787 a series of essays written in support of ratification of the Constituition
- 3. ____ Territory; a region given to the United States by the Treat of Paris 1783
- 4. the constitutional system that shares power between national and state governments
- 5. ____ of Confederation; the first written plan of government for the United States
- 6. thinkers emphasized using rational thought to discover truths about nature and society; the "age of reason"
- 7. ___ Convention; In 1787, a meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution
- 10. judicial ____; the power of the Supreme Court to decide whether laws are constitutional
- 11. a country governed by elected representatives