Constitution Set 1
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- federalists
- people who supported ratification of the constitution
- Suffrage
- right to vote
- ammendment
- addition to a document
- ratification
- official confirmation
- inaugurated
- sworn into office (such as a president)
- executive branch
- government department that enforces the law
- Constitutional Convention
- 1787 meeting at which the U.S constitution was created
- Virginia plan
- proposal for a two-house legislature with representation according to each states population or wealth.
- James Madison
- prominent adviser to the Constitutional Convention
- New Jersey Plan
- proposal for a legislature in which each state would have one vote
- Habeas Corpus
- a legal order to protect people from being held in prison or jail without formal charges of a crime.
- Bill of Rights
- the first ten amendments to the US constitution
- Pre-amble
- the introductory part of a constitution
- checks and balances
- the ability of each branch of government to excercise checks, or controls, over the other branches.
- legislative branch
- government department that makes laws
- who has the power to grant to pardon of treason
- president
- Whiskey Rebellion
- the 1794 protest against the governments tax on whiskey by back country farmers.
- judicial branch
- government department that makes the laws
- Federalism
- system of government in which power is shared between the national government and the states
- Treason
- betrayal of trust
- Cabinet
- group of executive department heads that serve as the presidents chief advisers
- Great Compromise
- agreement to establish a two-house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.
- Jays treaty
- agreement that ended the dispute with Britain over American shipping during the French Revolution.
- antifederalists
- people sho opposed ratification of the constitution
- Pro Tempore
- for the time being
- popular sovereignty
- in the government system, people rule.
- Three-Fifths compromise
- agreement that a portion of a states slave population would be counted for representation and taxation.
- impeachment
- the process of accusing a public official of wrongdoing. May lead to removal from office.