Constitutional Convention
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- Supreme Court
- head of the judicial branch of government
- judicial branch
- branch of government that decides the meaning of laws
- Great Compromise
- proposal that Congress should have two separate houses, one based on state population and the other based on equal state representation
- political party
- group of people who shared similar ideas about government
- checks and balances
- system in which one branch of government is balanced by another
- amendment
- addition to a constitution or other document
- federal system
- system in which the states and the federal government share power
- Antifederalists
- opponents of the ratification of the Constitution
- Bill of Rights
- document that describes the basic rights of people
- executive branch
- branch of government that carries out the laws made by congress