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- separation of power
- the constitutional allotting of power within the federal government among the legislative, executive, a judicial branches
- Republicanism
- a form of government in which people elect representatives to create and enforce laws
- check and balance
- the branch government exercise check,or control over the other branches
- New Jersey Plan
- small states, representation based on statehood
- Limited Government
- in this govt everyone, all authority figures, must obey laws, constitutions, statements of rights, or other laws define the limits of those in power so they cannot take advantage of the elected appointed, or inhereted positions.
- federalism
- division of power between the national and state governments
- James Madison
- 4th U.S. President. 1809-1817. Democratic-Republican
- the great compromise
- population based represtation in the house of rep. equal represtation in the senate, money bill orginate in the house, taxes on states according to population
- Constitutional Convention
- the assembly of fifty-five delegates in the summer of 1787 to recast the Articles of Confederation; the result was the U.S. Constitution
- Virginia Plan
- large states, representation based on population
- Popular Sovereignty
- The concept that a States people should vote whether to be a slave state or Free
- individual rights
- Theses are protected by the Bill of Rights and include economic rights related to property, political rights related to freedom of speech and press, and personal rights related to bearing arms and maintaining private residences.