Chapter 35-42
Terms
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- Farmers
- New inventions made work easier
- Great Compromise
- Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on population in the other house
- Virgina Plan
- Supported by larger states and wanted seats based on population of states
- Anti-Federalist
- a person who opposed a strong national government
- Constitutional Convention
- the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787
- Connecticut Plan
- (def.) Proposed by Roger Sherman of Connecticut that said one house of the legislature should reflect the state's population. It was called the House of Representatives and one house should have an equal number of representatives from each state, called the Senate. Also called the Great Compromise (sig.) This solution meant that there would be a constitution.
- Federation
- the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs
- Checks & Balances
- you should get these form banks, written orders from your bank to pay the amount written to a named person
- Preamble
- a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose)
- Bill of Rights
- a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution)
- New Jersey plan
- New Jersey delegate William Paterson's plan of government, in which states got an equal number of representatives in Congress
- Confederation
- the act of forming an alliance or confederation
- Amendments
- changes in, or additions to the U.S. Constitution
- Federalism
- the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units
- Ratify
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- Republic
- A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting
- Supreme Law
- (def.) A rule that if the state and central government have laws that go against each other, the central government's ruling overrules the state's. (sig.) It prevents the central and state government from arguing about who is right if they have a law that collides with another.
- Federal
- any federal law-enforcement officer