Chapter 5 Part 2

a meeting to improve the Articles of Confederation

• Constitutional Convention
• Virginia Plan
• Bicameral
• Great Compromise

a plan that would give supreme power to the central government

• Judicial Branch
• Great Compromise
• Virginia Plan
• Checks and Balances

made up of two houses

• Amendments
• Bicameral
• Bill of Rights
• Three-Fifths Compromise

small state plan that would give each state an equal number of votes

• Unicameral
• Constitutional Convention
• Virginia Plan
• New Jersey Plan

one-house legislature

• Unicameral
• Amendments
• Bicameral
• Federalism

compromise between large and small states when deciding the number of representatives 

• Executive Branch
• Federalism
• Antifederalists
• Great Compromise

a compromise between slave states and non-slave states

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Constitutional Convention
• Great Compromise
• Bill of Rights

the idea that political authority belongs to the people

• Unicameral
• Federalists
• Popular Sovereignty
• Amendments

the sharing of power between a central government and the states

• Federalists
• Federalism
• Bill of Rights
• Great Compromise

Congress - responsible for proposing and passing laws

• Executive Branch
• Judicial Branch
• Legislative Branch
• Antifederalists