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- 5. The idea that governments should be based on the consent of the people
- 7. The branch of government that makes laws.
- 8. The branch of government that administers and enforces the laws
- 11. A compromise that called for 3/5ths of a state's slaves to be counted as population for both representation and taxation.
- 15. Created and proposed the Virginia Plan and known as the father of the constitution
- 17. 1787 A law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to the Union.
- 20. An opponent of a strong central government
- 21. A compromise that offered a two-house Congress to satisfy both small and big states.
- 22. A political system in which a national government and constituent units, such as state governments, share power
- 23. An uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers protesting increased state taxes
- 24. Supporters of the Constitution that favored the new Constitution's balance of power between the states and national government.
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- 1. A document adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States
- 2. A series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
- 3. The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms.
- 4. The branch of government that interprets the laws and the Constitution
- 6. The official approval of the Constitution, or of an amendment, by the states.
- 9. A plan proposed by William Paterson that proposed a single house congress in which each state had an equal vote.
- 10. the providions in the US Constitution that prevent any branch of the US government from dominating the other two branches
- 12. Alliance
- 13. A plan proposed by James Madison that proposed a bicameral (two house) legislature, with membership based on each state's population.
- 14. Political leader from Connecticut that suggested the Great Compromise
- 16. A government in which citizens rule through their elected representatives
- 18. A group selected by the states to elect the president and the vice-president, in which each state's number of electorsis equal to the number of its senators and representatives in Congress.
- 19. 1785 Established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains