Unit 3 vocabulary

5. a British document signed in 1215 that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights.
7. to approve
8. the first American constitution, passed in 1777, which created a loose alliance of 13 independent states
10. to change.
11. the plan at the Constitutional Convention, favored by smaller states, that called for three branches of government with a single-chamber legislature
12. the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
14. a law that set up a system for settling the Northwest Territory
15. the plan at the Constitutional Convention that called for a strong national government with three branches and a two-chamber legislature
16. a system of government in which citizens choose representatives to govern them.

1. a 1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory
2. a plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the differences between large and small states.
3. a document that sets out the laws, principles, organization, and processes of a government
4. a principle by which the powers of government are divided among separate branches.
6. an agreement at the Constitutional Convention that three fifths of the enslaved residents in any state be counted in its population.
8. an opponent of a strong federal government.
9. a supporter of a strong federal government.
13. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime.