civics chapter 5
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- Amendments
- changes to the constitution
- The delegates decided which powers would be
- assigned to congress
- Impeach
- accuse the president or high officials of serious wrongdoing
- Reserved Powers
- are powers that the constitution neither gives to congress nor denies to the states
- Federalism
- the division of power between the states and the federal or national goverment
- Power tht the Constitution gives to Congress but does not deny to states are
- concurrent powers
- Anti-Federalist
- opponents of the constitution
- Federalists
- supporters of the constitution
- Checks and Balences
- the system the gives each branch of goverment ways to limit the powers of the other two
- Delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed that
- national goverment needed goverment power was divided by 3 branches
- Executive power was given to
- the president
- Three-Fifths Compromise
- compromise known as the ------------- counted each slave as these three- fifths of a person when a state population was calculated
- Ratified
- approved
- The Great Compromise decided the issue of
- shermans plan
- The Anti-Federalists wanted the Constitution
- Legislative, Executive and Judicial
- Bicameral
- two house legislature
- The Federalists argued tht a strong federal gov. would
- provide protection maintain order regutale trade and guarantee the rights of citizen