Unit 3 Vocabulary

2. to approve.
3. Carta a British document signed in 1215 that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights.
7. Of Rights the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
9. a document that sets out the laws, principles, organization, and processes of a government.
10. a system of government in which citizens choose representatives to govern them.
12. Corpus the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime.
14. a supporter of a strong federal government.
15. of ordinance of 1785 a law that set up a system for settling the Northwest Territory.
16. Compromise an agreement at the Constitutional Convention that three fifths of the enslaved residents in any state be counted in its population.
17. Compromise a plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the differences between large and small states.

1. of confederation the first American constitution, passed in 1777, which created a loose alliance of 13 independent states.
4. to change.
5. Ordinance a 1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory.
6. Plan the plan at the Constitutional Convention that called for a strong national government with three branches and a two-chamber legislature.
8. an opponent of a strong federal government.
11. of power a principle by which the powers of government are divided among separate branches.
13. Jersey Plan the plan at the Constitutional Convention, favored by smaller states, that called for three branches of government with a single-chamber legislature.