"Just Right" Government

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