The Constitution
chapter 3
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- Three-Fifths Compromise
- agreement providing that enslaved person would count three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in congress
- checks and balances
- a system in which eah branch of the goverment is able to check, or restrain, the power of others
- amendment
- any change to the Constitution
- preamble
- the opening section of the constitution
- legistlative branch
- the lawmaking branch of government
- judicial branch
- the branch of government that interprets the law
- rule of law
- principle that the law applies to everyone even those who govern
- expressed powers
- powers that congress has that are speciflcally listed in the constitution
- income tax
- a tax on people's earnings
- separation of powers
- the split of authority among the legislative ,executive,and judocial branch
- amendment
- any change in the constitution
- concurrent powers
- powers shared by the state and the federal goverment
- federalism
- a form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the states
- Great Compromise
- agreement providing a duel system of congressional representation
- Electoral College
- a group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president
- executive branch
- the branch of government that carries out the law
- income tax
- a tax on people's earnings
- popular sovereignty
- the notion that power lies with the people
- Anti-Federalists
- those who opposed the Constitution
- Federalists
- supporters of the Constitution
- Constitutional Convention
- meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to the adoption of the Constitution
- Preamble
- the opening section of the constitution
- bill of rights
- the frist 10 amendment to the constitution
- Bill of Rights
- the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
- reserved powers
- power that the constitiution does not give to the national government that are kept by the state